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.
Amazing young man willing to change his life to change the world.
In the June 2010 issue, they talked about WATER POWERED CLOCKS! That is SO COOL!!!
I LOVE the fishing section in July 1990!!!!!!
My son and i just read a artical about his Grandfather as an explorer scout in 1955. What a great resource.
I guess they don’t call him “Spike” Harris for nothing (See Sep 1990)!
Working fine for me
Really like Dec 1989
Boy scouts .best scouts organization in the world.
I’d like a print copy of the July 1963 article on the Persian war (p 42) Can you help?
It was between 69 and 73.