Boy Scouts Handbook: The First Edition, 1911
| Author | Boy Scouts of America |
|---|---|
| Published | 1911 |
| Format | Book |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — The first official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America (1911), covering scoutcraft, woodcraft, camping, first aid, chivalry and citizenship.
The first edition of the Boy Scouts of America handbook, published in 1911, a year after the organisation was founded. This copy is a browser print of the Project Gutenberg e-text (EBook #29558, released 2009), which keeps the original page numbers in curly braces.
The handbook mixes practical outdoor instruction — woodcraft, camping, signalling, tracking, first aid, the study of trees and animals — with chapters on chivalry, patriotism, health and citizenship, setting out the Scout oath and law that the movement carried forward.
What it is: a historical primary source: a public-domain institutional handbook, read here via Project Gutenberg.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29558
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
256 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.