An American Family on the African Frontier: The Burnham Family Letters, 1893-1896 (1993)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 1879373661

Condition: Acceptable

The dust jacket has numerous small tears and wrinkles along the edges. Many of the pages are dog-eared and a few are stained on the top corner. Several passages have been highlighted and underlined.

Book Description:

In the late 1880s, as the American frontier "closed," the family of Frederick Russell Burnham, an American prospector and military hero, left for Africa in search of a new life. Burnham's experiences in the Indian uprisings of the U.S., his disenchantment with industrial America during the labor battles of the 1880s, and the necessity of using native labor in the mines of South Africa all shaped his thinking during a time when Social Darwinism was fashionable. - from the back cover