John Hays Hammond
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John Hays Hammond was an American mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. He amassed a sizable fortune before the age of 40. An early advocate of deep mining, Hammond was given complete charge
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Natalie Harris Hammond
Former residence of John Hays Hammond in Washington, D.C.
Time, 1926
Frederick Russell Burnham
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Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teac
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…ambassador. At the same time, he continued to develop mines in Mexico and California and, in 1923, he made another fortune while drilling for oil with the Burnham Exploration Company. Hammond was the son of Major Richard Pindell Hammond, a West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican War, and Sarah, daughter of Harmon Hays and his…
Major Burnham in his British Army uniform in 1901
Burnham in Arizona Territory in 1881
The six-shooter Burnham purchased as a teenager in Prescott, Arizona, which he kept all his life and later used in Rhodesia, East Africa and Mexico
Bob Bain; Burnham (middle) during the First Matabele War in 1893, holding his Winchester model 1873 .44WCF rifle; Maurice Gifford