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.
Boy’s Life is free on google books.
Great feature. It made me realize how often the covers in the past featured Scouts in Field Uniform compared to today’s covers, and how much those past covers make memorable records of the Scouting program, worthy of being framed and hung in every Scout Hut.
Thanks for making this resource available.
Looking for the last comic before pedro was changed in this decade. Anyone know what issue that would be?
Thanks
Great resource! Do you know when you will be putting up 2013-2018?
1929 is their with me
One magazine that has not gone downhill with age…keep up the good work boys life!
What a great feature! Thank you!
I’m looking for a copy of the August 1929 magazine. I am a descendant of G. Barrett Rich, mentioned in the article, who would be the Honorary American Camp Chief at the World Jamboree.
Thanks for your help!
I love this page in large part because it allows me to see the endings and beginnings of cartoon series where I missed some of the B.L. issues during the periods when the series ran.
Has anyone come across ads by Imagineering for monster masks you could build? They weren’t wearable but the looked awesome! Thanks!