Fair copy of a poem by Lord Granville Gordon, 189?

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Fair copy of a poem by Lord Granville Gordon, 189?

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Burnham has written and signed a fair copy of "Wilson's last stand," a poem by Lord Granville Gordon honoring Allan Wilson's fight to the last man against the chief Lobengula on the banks of the Shangani River in1893.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Burnham, Frederick Russell, 1861-1947

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Frederick Russell Burnham was born on May 11, 1861, in Tivoli, Minnesota. After his family moved to California, he became a scout and learned from the best professionals in western America and Mexico. He earned fame and honors for his work as a scout in the two Matabele Wars and the Boer War in South Africa. He also explored uncharted regions of both Africa and Mexico and ran development, oil, and mining companies in the United States, Africa, and Mexico. He married Blanche Blick in 1884, and th...

Lobengula, King of the Matabele, approximately 1833-1893?

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Wilson, Allan, d. 1893

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Gordon, Granville, Lord, 1856-1907

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