How Girls Can Help Their Country: The 1913 Handbook for Girl Scouts
| Author | W. J. Hoxie |
|---|---|
| Published | 1913 |
| Format | Book |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — The first American Girl Scout handbook (1913): practical guidance on camping, nature study, first aid, home skills and citizenship for girls.
The first handbook of the Girl Scouts in the United States, written by W. J. Hoxie and published in 1913 by Juliette Gordon Low’s young organisation, then headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its introduction credits the example of Agnes Baden-Powell and the British Girl Guides, and the book argues that the Boy Scout manuals are not suited to girls.
It is a practical manual: the scout law and promise, ranks and badges, camping and woodcraft, nature study (birds, plants, stars, weather), first aid and health, home-making skills, signalling, and patriotism and citizenship. A later 1916–17 revision by Low under the same title is a different text (that is the version on Project Gutenberg).
This copy is the 2001 Applewood Books facsimile reprint, scanned by the Internet Archive; the 1913 original itself is in the public domain and a scan of it is on the Internet Archive.
What it is: A historical organisational handbook, public domain by age. The archived file is a modern facsimile reprint of it.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Public copy: https://archive.org/details/howgirlscanhelpt00hoxi
- Archived copy (Google Drive): Google Drive
184 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.