Presents guidance, first published in 1911, on camping skills; identification of birds, animals, trees, and plants; tracks and trailing; signaling; health and endurance; chivalry; first aid and lifesaving; games and athletic standards; and patriotism and citizenship; and also co…
Presents guidance, first published in 1911, on camping skills; identification of birds, animals, trees, and plants; tracks and trailing; signaling; health and endurance; chivalry; first aid and lifesaving; games and athletic standards; and patriotism and citizenship; and also co…
'On My Honor' explores the folk customs of adolescent males in the Boy Scouts of America during a summer encampment in California's Sierra Nevada. Mechling uncovers the key rituals and play events through which the Boy Scouts shapes boys into men. He describes the campfire songs…
Highlights the key rituals and activities that shape the Boy Scouts organization, and critiques its role in turning boys into men.
This dissertation examines the Canadian Cadet Movement and Boy Scouts Association of Canada, seeking to put Canada’s two largest uniformed youth movements for boys into sustained conversation. It does this in order to analyse the ways in which both movements sought to form mascu…
This blueprint for the Boy Scout movement not only provides energetic tips on camping, tracking, and woodcraft, but offers proper Victorian-era advice on manners, self-discipline, and good citizenship.