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.
cool way back then and now and the future.
Thanks for a terrific archive of a great magazine. I had forgotten I received it (early 1960s) even before becoming a scout. After all these years many articles and photos still seem familiar. And a chess column by a young Bobby Fischer– wow. My son is just starting scouting and I will order him a subscription.
I wonder if our Cub Scout pack will ever get in. Well, I hope it does!
Will we ever be able to print them out?
i love it exept it dosent have all the years.
is that a brown bear on the may 1919 cover
yes it is ;}
yes it is obviously it has to:)
I remember when BL came in the large size format. Our troop was on the cover of the February 1996 issue. Too cool. Great magazine!
This thing is really awsome!!!!!!!!!
thanks its cool bsa
THis Rocks I love boys life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i know right.