“ The six-gun, rough-riding days of the American West produced a tough breed of frontiersman who were matchless in the arts of the wilderness -- of hunting, of finding their way over trackless terrain, of schouting and smelling out the enemy. Americans with these skills were in demand in Rhodesia. Two American scouts, Frederick Russell Burnham and Perl Ingram, an ex-miner from California, have the distinction of being the first men to enter the smouldering ashes of Bulawayo when the Matabele abandoned their capital during the war of 1893. ”