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Scouting on Two Continents
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All England cheered this modest American.
He acquired his scouting lore warring against Apaches in Arizona. After hunting gold in the Northwest and the Klondike he rode deep into the savage territory of Africa to slay the M'Limo, treacherous Matabele high priest. During the Boer War he performed many thrilling exploits as chief of Scouts. He was honored in the friendship of Lord Roberts, Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes, and Dr. Jameson and received the highest honors of the British Empire. In this book he tells in full detail the fascinating story of his thrilling and varied career.
"In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance"—SIR RIDER HAGGARD
"I have seldom been as much taken with a narrative"—REAR ADMIRAL WM. S. SIMS, U.S.N.
"I have read it all with enthralled interest"—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"England was never made by her statesmen; England was made by her adventurers."—GENERAL GORDON.
He acquired his scouting lore warring against Apaches in Arizona. After hunting gold in the Northwest and the Klondike he rode deep into the savage territory of Africa to slay the M'Limo, treacherous Matabele high priest. During the Boer War he performed many thrilling exploits as chief of Scouts. He was honored in the friendship of Lord Roberts, Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes, and Dr. Jameson and received the highest honors of the British Empire. In this book he tells in full detail the fascinating story of his thrilling and varied career.
"In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance"—SIR RIDER HAGGARD
"I have seldom been as much taken with a narrative"—REAR ADMIRAL WM. S. SIMS, U.S.N.
"I have read it all with enthralled interest"—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"England was never made by her statesmen; England was made by her adventurers."—GENERAL GORDON.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- THE ADVENTURERS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I-THE MAKING OF A SCOUT
- CHAPTER II-FIRST LESSONS IN SCOUTING
- CHAPTER III-THE TONTO BASIN FEUD
- CHAPTER IV-MY SMUGGLER FRIEND
- CHAPTER V-UPS AND DOWNS IN GLOBE
- CHAPTER VI-THE NECKTIE PARTY
- CHAPTER VII-GOLD MINING
- CHAPTER VIII-THE CALL TO AFRICA
- CHAPTER IX-THE LONG TRAIL
- CHAPTER X-THE TREK NORTH
- CHAPTER XI-THE WAR CLOUD
- CHAPTER XII-MASHONALAND
- CHAPTER XIII-THE FIRST MATABELE WAR
- CHAPTER XIV-WHEN THE COMPASS FAILED
- CHAPTER XV-CARRYING DISPATCHES
- CHAPTER XVI-THE DASH TO CAPTURE THE KING
- CHAPTER XVII-WILSON’S LAST STAND
- CHAPTER XVIII-FORBES’S RETREAT
- CHAPTER XIX-AFTER THE WAR
- CHAPTER XX-THE JAMESON RAID
- CHAPTER XXI-THE SECOND MATABELE WAR
- CHAPTER XXII-RHODESIA’S DARKEST HOUR
- CHAPTER XXIII-THE M’LIMO
- CHAPTER XXIV-KLONDIKE
- CHAPTER XXV-AN OPINION OF THE BOERS
- CHAPTER XXVI-PAARDEBERG AND MODDER RIVER
- CHAPTER XXVII-THE PIETERSBURG FAILURE
- CHAPTER XXVIII-CATTLE LIFTING NEAR BRAKPAN
- CHAPTER XXIX-TAKEN PRISONER AT SANNA’S POST
- CHAPTER XXX-ESCAPE FROM THE BOERS
- CHAPTER XXXI-CUTTING THE RAILROAD
- CHAPTER XXXII-WOUNDED
- CHAPTER XXXIII-REWARDS
- CHAPTER XXXIV-THE GREAT WAR AND THE PROSPECTOR
- THE LATEST ADVENTURE
- GLOSSARY
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