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.
how do you order a specific issue of this magazine if you lost an old copy?
when does the Hitching Rack and when does the Scouts in Action comics start?
I like. Especially the Get Fit not Fat magzine. Why on some of the pages the pictures a cut off? can we still get the Get Fit not Fat magzine? Overall I like it.
Wasnt there any Magazines from 1910? or was that before it started?
the magazine statrted march 1911
i have the best of boys life so i might have all the best ones anyways
I can’t look at 1920 October. is there a problem?
the wayback machine isvery interesting and historical. I get to see the old jokes in the think and grin, old jokes can be good too, but some of them are not easy to understand.
Hmmm … not sure what’s going on with Oct. 1920. We’re checking it out and hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.
I have five issues of th october 1920 magizine
October 1920 should be working now. Thanks for alerting us to the problem.
you’re welocome
Is there a way to print a page of a magazine. I would like to share a page with my cubscouts.
thanks
We’re sorry, but printing is not available at this time.
If you have a Macintosh you can copy anything on the screen. Command/shift/3 captures the whole screen and command/shift/4 captures a section you select. I don’t know how its done on a windows machine
Any luck finding Vol. 1 #2, which apparently was mid-March 1911?
ya know what thats hard to read but only if you click the zoom in button
amazing glimpse of history. I will look at it again and agoin.