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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:

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.

10 Comments on Boys’ Life Archives

  1. i like march 1936

  2. awesome

  3. Hey, have any of you noticed a change in the material your magazines are made of? I think they are recycling, which is a good thing except for the fact that it feels really weird in my hands.

    By the way, I’m always watching you.

  4. why don’t they have crossword puzzles in the new ones…..

  5. my dad’s in Dec 1938 in the pic with Uncle Dan Beard- What a wonderful time to have experienced Scouting!!

  6. I wish magazines were still like this

  7. yeah I liked it too.

  8. I like Feb 1931 that is when the peewee stories were first introduced

  9. this is awesome I have never seen a boys life magazine older than 2006

  10. Where is Mr. Peabody? and Sherman?

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