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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.

16 Comments on Boys’ Life Archives

  1. Looking for October 1929 issue. Please if anyone could help me out.

  2. Cool!!!!!!!

  3. Is there any way to print these articles?? Please help.

  4. Are the Boys Life magazines from 1986,87 and 88 collectible?

  5. is there a way to request the actual magazine or do you just have to print the cover/articles from this site??

  6. got it

  7. Oklahoma Hot Iron // August 28, 2016 at 10:03 pm // Reply

    Looking for a copy of Jan 1975 anyone out there have one? The reason I’m looking for it is because my picture is in it on page 37. I was one of the Scouts that was in the Brown Sea Dbl Two week long camp at John Zink Scout Ranch in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thanks from a Eagle Scout!

  8. Need a Boy’s Life for September 1930, of page: cover, 24 and 25.

  9. I’m restoring my dad’s old Marlin 39a for his 70th birthday and he said he read about it and was inspired to buy it because of Boys Life Magazine. I found the ad for his gun in the May 1959 edition. Does anyone know how to either order this magazine or get a printable file/version of it?

  10. Every time I read about building snow caves(domes) there is always some added bit that makes it more comfortable,likely to lead to rescue and easier to build.

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