Major Frederick Russell Burnham D.S.O. was an impressive and near totally forgotten figure of US frontier history. He was one of the last Army Scouts from the Apache Wars. The Wild West becoming tame, he moved to South Africa. His friend Robert Baden-Powell was greatly inspired by Burnham to create the Boy Scout movement. Burnham is credited with being a model for Indiana Jones. The equally fascinating and forgotten German master spy, Fritz Dusquesne, vowed to kill him, but then worked with him on the bizarre but true project to introduce the African hippo into Louisiana. The Major addresses a Congressional sub committee in 1910 promoting the hippo project and proceeds to review his staggeringly adventurous life...
Written and performed by Howard Burnham