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Books in the Boy Scouts genre:

A Lovely Book for Children

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A Lovely Book for Children is a book that was written for children. Children say it is lovely.

Author(s): None
Illustrator(s): None

Caldecott Honor Book
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Roy Blakely

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Author(s): None
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Wild Animals I Have Known (1898)

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Eight animal histories taken from life. The author’s purpose was to attempt to persuade the reader that wild things are worth preserving. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Seton Thompson

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The Birchbark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians (1902)

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This manual for the organization of an Indian tribe was first published in 1902. It was instrumental in the later founding of the Boy Scouts of America and was reprinted many times, at least into the 1930’s. The cover above is for the sixth edi... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Ernest Seton Thompson

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How to Play Indian (1903)

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This pamphlet was reprinted from Ladies’ Home Journal. It was the first instruction for the new Woodcraft Indians. Read for free online at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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The Gold Bat (1904)

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A tale of Wrykyn, an English ‘public’ school, cricket and certain pranks, one of which targeted the local MP. Read online at Gutenberg.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

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The Red Book, or How to Play Indian (1904)

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This is the second edition of the handbook that started the Woodcraft Indians.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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Four In Camp (1905)

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The story of four boys at summer camp in the White Mountains.

Author(s): Ralph Henry Barbour
Illustrator(s): Charles M. Relyea

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The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England (1909)

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While everyone is on August holiday, England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his Boy Scout troop stand in their way. Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Rema... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): C. Harrison

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Boy Scouts of America: Official Handbook (1910)

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The ‘Original” edition of the Boy Scouts of America Handbook was written by E. T. Seton, using some of the material from R. Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. Read for free online at the E. T. Seton Institute.... View More

Author(s): Robert Baden-Powell
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Robert Baden-Powell

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The War Dance and the Fire-Fly Dance (1910)

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A pamphlet for use by the Woodcraft Indians.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): None

The Book of Woodcraft (1912)

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A comprehensive guide to woodcraft by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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Tad Sheldon, Boy Scout (1913)

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Early boy scout adventures along Yaquina Bay in Oregon where the troop patrols for mariners in distress.

Author(s): John Fleming Wilson
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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Manual of the Woodcraft Indians The Fourteenth Birch Bark Roll (1915)

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This is a handbook for starting and running an Indian tribe. This was one of the precursors of the Scouting movement, and includes ‘merit badges.’ First published in 1902, this is the fourteenth edition. Read for free online at HathiTrust... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Tom Slade Boy Scout (1915)

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Tom is a sixteen-year-old street tough, left to fend for himself by his worthless father, Bill Slade, after wealthy landowner John Temple evicts them. Tom scorns the Boy Scout movement, as does Temple and his effeminate son Wilfred. Because of his in... View More

Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s): Photographs

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The Woodcraft Manual For Girls of the Woodcraft League (1916)

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An early scouting handbook for girls. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
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Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Woodcraft Manual for Boys of the Woodcraft League (1917)

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A scouting manual from a precursor of the Boy Scouts of America. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Sign Talk (1918)

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An extensive history of signing and a dictionary of signs, chiefly from North American Indian sign language. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lillian Delger Powers
Hugh Lenox Scott
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

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Roy Blakeley’s Silver Fox Patrol (1920)

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Roy, Pee-wee and the rest of the gang find a treasure map in an old railroad car and are off on a treasure hunt. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s): Thomas Clarity
Howard L. Hastings

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The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore (1922)

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This is the second edition of the author’s comprehensive collection of Indian lore and woodcraft, written by a founder of the Boy Scouts. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s): Ernest Seton Thompson

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