Item Description

The BSA calls this Handbook the Original Edition rather than the 1st Edition because it was intended strictly as a temporary Handbook until they could standardize the program and publish a permanent Handbook. The cover title is Boy Scouts of America Official Handbook. The title page says Boy Scouts of America A Handbook of Woodcraft, Scouting, and Life-craft by Ernest Thompson Seton With which is incorporated by arrangement General Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. The Original Edition combined the ninth edition of Seton’s Birch-Bark Roll and some parts of Baden-Powell’s classic Scouting for Boys (written in 1907).