Publisher's Synopsis
Richard Harding Davis was an American writer and journalist. Davis was also well known for being the first American war correspondent to cover many wars including the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Davis's writing also played a critical role in helping the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. Real Soldiers of Fortune is a book consisting of short biographies of the following people: Henry Maciver, James Harden-Hickey, Winston Churchill (his early life), Philo Norton McGiffin, General William Walker, and Frederick Russell Burnham.
