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flat on the ground and commenced cautiously eyeing the surrounding country for the enemy. When saw a hat rising from behind a rock about 150 yards away, he drew his pistol and fired on the hat. His enemy fled down the Los Coyotes creek, down the canyon trail Burnham had been following, with the intent to assume a new ambush. Burnham recognized his enemy as the Indian he had met a short time earlier and he knew that this Indian was carrying a Winchester rifle and had him out-gunned. Burnham left his pack animal, tools, provisions and blankets and quickly fled on his horse down a steep cliff away from the trail and to safety in San Jacinto.
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Over the next few years, he lived in England and South Africa. He gave lectures and contributed a series of articles on mining techniques and the sundry principles underlying the finance of mining enterprises, more especially the "risk rate." In London on November 18, 1903, Burnham married Constance
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and less than an hour before the attack he met an Indian with whom he had a conversation in Spanish. Burnham continued on the trail until he heard a slight report and felt something hit his right leg, and then a second report resulting in a flesh wound to his left leg. He immediately threw himself
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to inform the syndicate directors of the situation. He was captured by the British and held 24 hrs before he could prove that he was an American citizen. When he started back to Johannesburg, he was captured by the Boers, who took him for a British spy. For a time, he was uncertain if he would be
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with his brother Fred. In 1908, he and W. A. Wadham of London, England, took a month-long geology and mining trip through Sonora on behalf of American and English business partners. Negotiations were made for the purchase of four properties: the Batue, Mequite, La Fiera, and another property. He
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Howard Burnham of this city has been for a year or more the engineer of a gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa and his wife has been with him. Mrs. Burnham retreated to Cape Town at the start of the Second Boer War, but Howard remained at his post in the mines, protected by his American
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began. The final blow to Burnham-Hammond plans came in 1917 when Mexico passed laws prohibiting the sale of land to foreigners. The Burnham and the Hammond families carried their properties until 1930 and then sold them to the Mexican government.
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and into the Sierra Madres to look for good grazing lands and minerals. His brother purchased water rights and some 300 acres (1.2 km) of land in this region and contacted an old friend of the Burnhams from Africa,
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While in Germany, Burnham applied his engineering skills to converting simple household materials in useful surveying instruments, and he used his wooden leg to conceal these tools when he traveled to places such as
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considered the La Fiera to be the best of the lot and a small force of men under the supervision of John Anderson was put to work there. In 1909, he traveled with Hector Walker of England on a 300-mile journey from
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broke out in 1899, Burnham felt he would be protected because of his American citizenship. Initially, he remained at his post in the mines in the Boer Republic, but as a precaution, he sent his wife to
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and how to ride the range, and all of this in spite of his wooden leg. A voracious reader with an amazing memory, he enjoyed books on military strategies and tactics and was fascinated by history,
408:), graduating with an S.B. By September 1898, he and his wife were back in Africa and he was working for an English syndicate and supervising over 2,000 miners at the Rosa deep gold mine near 321:, and following the amputation, he had a long convalescence. For those two years, he lived with his brother, who taught him how to shoot, saddle a horse and pack animals, the art of 457:, whom he had met on the ship during their voyage to South Africa. From 1905 until about 1908, Burnham was a non-resident fellow at the Royal Colonial Institute in London. 352:
In 1888, during one of his desert prospecting excursions, Burnham had a shoot-out with an Indian (not Cahuilla). He was on an old trail leading over the mountains between
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After the Alvord mine in California was destroyed in a fire, Burnham stayed in California until 1894 to wrap up his family's affairs with the mine and left for the
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While his wife and children stayed in England and France, Burnham returned to North America in 1907 and for the next few years became associated with the
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and a missionary, died when Burnham was only 3, leaving the family destitute. He and his mother, Rebecca (Elizabeth) Russell Burnham, originally from
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shot or hanged. He wired his family for funds to help get him out of his predicament. Only weeks earlier, his brother had been prospecting in
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requesting his assistance in the war – Fred left for Africa within the hour. Fred Burnham had just been appointed Chief of Scouts for the
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Henry Garber Hanks State Mineralogist 1880–1886. Hanks started his own assaying company, Pacific Chemical Works, while in San Francisco.
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Burnham became very ill and was allowed to return to Switzerland for his health. The French government quickly transported Burnham to
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Mather Howard Burnham U.S. passport application affidavit/identifying documents, U.S. consulate, Barcelona, Spain, 26 February 1915
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certification to assay gold, silver, lead, tin, and mercury, and the determination of minerals and the use of blacopipe.
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For the next few years, Burnham studied mining and worked on and off in the California desert as mining engineer at the
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then sent Burnham across enemy lines as a spy to discover if the Germans were preparing a new front through the
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Application for emergency passport, U.S. Consulate at Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, 29 September 1899
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Marriage certificate, from Holly Trinity Church, Brompton Parish, London, 18th November 1903, column no. 118
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Report of Death of American Citizens Abroad, no. 554, dated May 11, 1917, American Consulate, Nice, France.
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and was en route to South Africa via England, but he was still too distant to provide any immediate help.
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Burnham, M. H. (1904). "Treatment of Telluride Ores by Dry Crushing and Roasting at Kalgoorlie".
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John Flemming (April 1903). "The extraction of gold from cyanide house slimes by a wet method".
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Frederick Russell Burnham, M. Howard Burnham, Connie Burnham, and baby Fred, c1904
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An American family on the African frontier: the Burnham family letters, 1893–1896
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An American family on the African frontier: the Burnham family letters, 1893–1896
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when he took ill and was forced to leave for Europe to recuperate. He left for
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accompanied by his nephew Roderick, and the two of them then went to
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Burnham, M. H. (1901). "Continuous Section System Mine Sampling".
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as soon as he could to join his brother Fred already in
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to lower California, living among and learning from the
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Katherine "Kitty" Burnham (October 9, 1911 – 1999), b.
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as a suspected spy, and was released with the help of
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Newton, then a young school teacher and an heiress to
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Howard Burnham will return to the Alvord mine today.
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America – The Men and Their Guns That Made Her Great
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Griffin and Company, limited. 1276:Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute 1169:. London, C. Griffin and Company, limited. 270:. He was named after his cousin Lieutenant 790:. Petersen Publishing Co. pp. 77–91. 752: 750: 748: 35: 24: 710: 708: 706: 704: 702: 700: 698: 696: 694: 333:, and mining. He roamed the deserts from 1639:Michigan Technological University alumni 1570:. Chapter XXXI is on M. Howard Burnham. 637:(now the Territory of South Africa). d. 278:officer who was killed in action in the 690: 659:Mary Burnham (May 29, 1909 – 1987), b. 1383:. Farrar & Rinehart. p. 565. 1379:The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond 1325: 1314: 1531:. Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart. 524:, Burnham worked in intelligence for 7: 1664:19th-century American businesspeople 1629:American expatriates in South Africa 528:. In 1914, he was incarcerated near 1554:Burnham, Frederick Russell (1944). 1343:"Plan Extended Horseback Journal". 494:into Mexico, and then east through 266:), just before his family moved to 14: 764:. Doubleday, Page & company. 441:when he received a telegram from 406:Michigan Technological University 113:Michigan Technological University 1634:American expatriates in Zimbabwe 1604:People from Pasadena, California 1353:. 11 September 1909. p. 1. 1200:. 17 January 1900. p. I15. 1137:. 18 November 1899. p. 15. 313:At 14, Burnham was in school in 306:, left to live with an Uncle in 16:For the Union Army officer, see 1654:19th-century American engineers 875:. 8 September 1891. p. 7. 246:Rebecca Russell Burnham, mother 1644:American expatriates in Mexico 1619:South African mining engineers 1609:American mining businesspeople 1224:"Taking Sides in the Boer War" 1033:. 17 January 1900. p. 2. 580:François Joseph Paul de Grasse 455:Newton, Chambers & Company 341:Indians of Agua Caliente (now 258:Indian reservation in Tivoli, 1: 1624:World War I spies for France 1297:Mining and Engineering World 610:Burnham was a descendant of 555:. Traveling through neutral 1506:Burnham, M. Howard (1912). 1062:. 8 June 1895. p. 11. 821:. 25 June 1888. p. 8. 1680: 1228:American Heritage Magazine 762:Scouting on Two Continents 758:Burnham, Frederick Russell 716:Burnham, Frederick Russell 586:to force the surrender of 410:Johannesburg, South Africa 15: 1659:Engineers from California 1614:American mining engineers 1031:San Francisco, California 819:San Francisco, California 471:Frederick Russell Burnham 430:East London, South Africa 376:South Africa and Rhodesia 212:Frederick Russell Burnham 201: 170: 142:Constance Newton (Connie) 34: 842:Burnham: Chief of Scouts 840:van Wyke, Peter (2003). 722:. Haynes Corp. 217–232. 635:Republic of South Africa 582:whose fleet had enabled 343:Palm Springs, California 282:. 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Index

Howard Mather Burnham

Minnesota
Mankato
New York City
Michigan Technological University
Mining engineer
Spy
Edwin Otway Burnham
United States
France
World War I
Frederick Russell Burnham
mining engineer
World War I
intelligence officer
spy
France

missionary
Sioux
Minnesota
Mankato
Los Angeles, California
Howard Mather Burnham
Civil War
Battle of Chickamauga
Edwin Otway Burnham
Kentucky
frontiersman

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