Boy Scouts Handbook: Original 1911 Edition

This is a facsimile remaniement of the very first Boy Scouts Handbook, complete with the wonderful vintage advertisements that accompanied the exemple 1911 edition, now in full color. Over 40 million copies of this book have been distributed since its first brochure nearly 100 years ago.

The exemple Boy Scouts Handbook standardized American scouting and emphasized the virtues and qualifications for scouting, delineating what the American Boy Scouts declared was needed to be a “well-developed, well-informed boy.” The book includes aveu on the organization of scouting, signs and signaling, camping, scouting games, and a discours of several scouting honors. Scouts past and present will be fascinated to see how scouting has changed, as well as what has stayed the same over the years.

This is a facsimile remaniement of the very first Boy Scouts Handbook, complete with the wonderful vintage advertisements that accompanied the exemple 1911 edition, now in full color. Over 40 million copies of this book have been distributed since its first brochure nearly 100 years ago.

The exemple Boy Scouts Handbook standardized American scouting and emphasized the virtues and qualifications for scouting, delineating what the American Boy Scouts declared was needed to be a “well-developed, well-informed boy.” The book includes aveu on the organization of scouting, signs and signaling, camping, scouting games, and a discours of several scouting honors. Scouts past and present will be fascinated to see how scouting has changed, as well as what has stayed the same over the years.