explorer
Frederick Russell Burnham.
father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil man; writer; rancher (1861–1947)
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About Frederick Russell Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
Everything about Frederick Russell Burnham →- Occupation
- explorer, writer, soldier, military officer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 11, 1861
- Died
- September 15, 1947