Boys’ Life Archives
Scout Life magazine has partnered with Google Books to archive more than 100 years of Boys’ Life magazine. You can view nearly every issue from March 1911 to December 2012 at the following links:
- 1911-1919 issues
- 1920-1929 issues
- 1930-1939 issues
- 1940-1949 issues
- 1950-1959 issues
- 1960-1969 issues
- 1970-1979 issues
- 1980-1989 issues
- 1990-1999 issues
- 2000-2009 issues
- 2010-2012 issues
Once you find the issue you’d like to read, just click on the “Preview this magazine” link. You can also search within a particular issue or across all issues.
What About Issues Since 2012?
Many articles published since 2012 are available here on the Scout Life website. You can also find recent issues of the magazine on the Scout Life app.
Which of these Boy’s Life magazine issues had a comic with fictional apes or monkeys?
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This is awesome< But I can't seem to access anything but the foirst Year of every decade… Any tips?
Likewise, I’m only seeing the first year of each decade.
I’d really love to get my hands on digital versions of the issues when I was in Scouting, back in the ’70s….
I would like to sell some issues of Boys Life from the 50’s & 60’s
I have a few 1940s magazines mostly 1951 1952 1953
I’m looking for an old sterno stove
I’m looking for a desk top flag pole plan that raises and lowers the flag if any one can help me find the plan I will be happy.
Can’t seem to get any issue to open to view contents. A bad sign. 0___0
Sure it wasn’t the distributor coil?
Glad the Wayback machine is up and running. I TOLD you it was the spark plugs!