The Scout Handbook Through the Years
More than 36 million copies of
The Boy Scout Handbook
have
been printed since the first edition in 1910, which included an
illustration of a Boy Scout helping an elderly woman cross a street.
One requirement to become a First Class Scout at the time: be able to
stop a runaway horse. Later editions of the manual were also
representative of their times, as the following examples
show:
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