Boy Scouts of America Official Handbook: Original Edition

Please note: This is NOT the current edition of the BSA Handbook. It is a reprint of an historical edition of the BSA Handbook.

For the first time, we are pleased to present this facsimile copy of the 1910 Original Edition of the Boy Scouts of America Official Handbook!

Written primarily by Ernest Thompson Seton, with sections added from Lieutenant General Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s ＂Scouting for Boys＂ and ＂Aids to Scouting＂.

The 1910 Original Edition is a milestone in the history of the Boy Scouts of America. Published only from July 1910 to March 1911, this short-lived BSA Handbook was cobbled together using material from Seton’s earlier work ＂The Birch Bark Roll＂ and then fused with Baden-Powell’s Boy Scouts concept.

Always meant as a temporary handbook until a proper one could be written and published, the 1910 Original Edition is super interesting and contains a wealth of woodsman’s lore and military scouting techniques and training which do not appear in later editions of the BSA Handbooks.

Many expertss consider this book to be quite a useful backwoods survival manual, and it definitely has appeal to the modern ＂classic camping＂ movement.

The content of this edition is presented exactly as per the original, with the same page count, illustrations and table of contents. It’s the original text exactly as it was presented in 1910 without some modern ＂expert＂ analysis or introduction. Today’s reader can make up their own mind by actually reading the book.

A perfect gift for the classic camping enthusiast, old Eagle Scout or the young Indiana Jones in your life.

With all original illustrations, this new paperback replica edition brings this exceptionally rare book to a 21st Century audience.

Be sure to keep an eye out for our new editions of Baden-Powell’s military and scouting books, which inlcude:

• Reconnaissance and Scouting (1884) - red leather cover
• Cavalry Instruction (1885) - red canvas cover
• Aids to Scouting - For N.-C.Os. & Men (1899) - red cover
• Scouting for Boys Part I (1908) - buff cover
• Scouting for Boys Part II (1908) - buff cover
• Scouting for Boys Part III (1908) - buff cover
• Scouting for Boys Part IV (1908) - buff cover
• Scouting for Boys Part V (1908) - buff cover
• Scouting for Boys Part VI (1908) - buff cover
• Scouting for Boys - All Parts (1908) - light blue covers
• Boy Scouts of America Official Handbook - Original Edition (1910) - khaki cover
• Aids to Scoutmastership (1919) - khaki cover