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The Boy Scouts is an institution in America and around the world. Literally tens of millions of boys invested time in the Boy Scouts learning their lessons and lore throughout the decades. This collection brings together a unique archive of early 20th century boy scout books. Within this CD, you will find several of the very earliest boy scout manuals - both for the boys and adults, the full 1915 run of Boys life - the magazine of the Boy Scouts - and several exciting adventure novels written for Boy Scouts to help them learn more about their guiding principles of life through story. All told, this collection contains 43 books and 12 issues of Boys life.

Here are all the titles included in this jam packed CD:

1. Boy scouts of America : a handbook of woodcraft scouting, and life-craft (1910) - Seton, Ernest Thompson; Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron - 216 pages
2. The Boy Scouts Yearbook (1917) - 268 pages
3. The Boy Scouts Yearbook (1920) - 262 pages
4. The Boy Scouts Yearbook (1921) - 268 pages
5. The Boy Scouts Yearbook (1922) - 264 pages
6. Educational work of the Boy Scouts (1921) - 15 pages
7. The Boy Scouts to the Rescue (1920) - Charles Henry Lerrigo - 247 pages
8. Boy scouts hikes in Greater Boston; (1919) - :Mason, Frank Stillman - 60 pages
9. The boy scouts book of stories (1920) - Mathiews, Franklin K. - 471 pages
10. Indian scout talks; a guide for Boy scouts and Campfire girls (1914) - Eastman, Charles Alexande - 218 pages
11. Roy Blakeley, his story : being the true narrative of his adventures and those of his troop - illustrated by Howard L. Hastings, published with the approval of The Boy Scouts of America (1920) - Fitzhugh, Percy Keese - 236 pages
12. Boy training : an interpretation of the principles that underlie symmetrical boy development (1911) - John L. Alexander - 223 pages
13. Community Boy Leadership: A Manual for Scout Executives (1922) - 624 pages
14. The Boy Scout Trail Blazers ; Or, Scouting for Uncle Sam on the Pike National Forest (1917) - Frank Hobart Cheley - 252 pages
15. The book of woodcraft and Indian lore (1912) - Seton, Ernest Thompson - 602 pages
16. Boys' Life Magazine - all 12 1915 monthly issues - 576 pages
17. The boy scout movement applied by the church (1915) - Richardson, Norman Egbert; Loomis, Ormond Eros - 509 pages
18. The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island : or, Marooned among the game-fish poachers (1914) - Carter, Herbert - 267 pages
19. A country Boy scout; (1916) - Hare, Walter Ben - 68 pages
20. Scoutmastership, a handbook for scoutmasters on the theory of scout training (1920) - Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, - 208 pages
21. Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the moving pictures (1915) - Fitzhugh, Percy Keese - 247 pages
22. Yarns for boy scouts, told round the camp fire (1909) - Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron - 231 pages
23. Harper's camping and scouting; an outdoor guide for American boys; (1911) - 428 pages
24. The Boy scout's hike book; the first of a series of handy volumes of information and inspiration (1913) - Cave, Edward - 264 pages
25. Boy scouts of Lakeville high (1920) - Quirk, Leslie W - 331 pages
26. Rovering to success : a book of life-sport for young men (1922) - Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron - 263 pages
27. The Boy Scouts on Crusade (1917) - Leslie W. Quirk - 336 pages
28. Boy Scouts on the Trail (1920) - John Garth - 256 pages
29. The boy scouts' good turn (1917) - Weston, Albert Edmund - 40 pages
30. Boy scouts' life of Lincoln (1921) - Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva) - 282 pages
31. The Boy Scouts of Kendallville (1918) - Corcoran, Brewer - 312 pages
32. The boy scouts under fire in Mexico (1914) - Payson, Howard; Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) - 329 pages
33. The Boy Scouts as forest fire fighters (1915) - Robert Shaler - 168 pages
34. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam (1912) - Howard Payson , Charles L. Wrenn - 310 pages
35. The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail (1920) - Thornton Waldo Burgess, Charles S . Corson - 382 pages
36. The boy scouts in a trapper's camp (1915) - Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) - 382 pages
37. The boy scouts of the Eagle patrol (1911) - Payson, Howard - 329 pages
38. Handbook for Scout Masters: Boy Scouts of America (1913) - 248 pages
39. The boy scouts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915) - Payson, Howard - 322 pages
40. First aid for boys; a manual for boy scouts and for others interested in prompt help for the injured and the sick (1917) - Cole, Norman Brown-; Ernst, Clayton Holt - 215 pages
41. The boy scouts of Woodcraft camp (1912) - Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) - 366 pages
42. The boy scouts on Belgian battlefields (1915) - Payson, Howard - 333 pages
43. The boy scouts on the range (1911) - Payson, Howard - 331 pages
44. The boy scouts at the Panama Canal (1913) - Payson, Howard - 330 page

Here are some images taken from the books in this collection.

This CD runs on all Windows and Macintosh computers. You must have a web browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader - (available for free download if you do not have it installed on your computer.) The book index is organized in an HTML menu that is compatible with all browsers and the books themselves are in PDF format to allow them to be universally accessed. All the books are printable - either individual pages or the entire book.