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.
This unlocked so many memories from my youth days. THANK YOU so much for preserving and post the archives on google for free reading!
I’m glad this archive exists, but what’s with all the missing content? No Dink and Duff or Webelos Woody? Those were staples of the original Boys Life magazine, yet I can’t find a trace of either in the archived issues. Tom Eaton was such an incredible artist. It’d be a shame to see so much of his work lost.
I found them in the 1980s issues. I bookmarked all the ones I had when Iceas young and all the issues are complete.
Any chance we can get the First Edition publications archived as well? The one’s for Cub Scouts and Weblos Scouts?