Set in the Progressive Era so dominated by President Theodore Roosevelt, The Scouting Party tells the story of the strong-minded and at times conflicting individuals including Roosevelt who shaped the Boy Scouts of America as it was founded a century ago in 1910 and took shape within a few years. The Scouting Party examines in particular the role of British-Canadian naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, whose trailblazing Woodcraft Indians strongly influenced the British founder of Scouting, General Robert Baden-Powell. Seton ...
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Set in the Progressive Era so dominated by President Theodore Roosevelt, The Scouting Party tells the story of the strong-minded and at times conflicting individuals including Roosevelt who shaped the Boy Scouts of America as it was founded a century ago in 1910 and took shape within a few years. The Scouting Party examines in particular the role of British-Canadian naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, whose trailblazing Woodcraft Indians strongly influenced the British founder of Scouting, General Robert Baden-Powell. Seton became the intellectual mainspring of the Boy Scouts of America in its formative years. But BSA organizers preferred Baden-Powells more conventional model to Setons vision of a youth movement based on the culture and values of the American Indian. Seton, well known to Americans for his best-selling book, Wild Animals I Have Known, and his vivid lectures on wildlife, found himself increasingly at odds with BSA management between 1910 and 1915 over issues of organizational philosophy. He also clashed frequently with Daniel C. Beard, an illustrator for Mark Twain and founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone, a rival to Setons Indians, over precedence in the field. Seton and Beard both wrangled with BSA Executive Secretary James E. West, who arbitrated their frequent wrangles while keeping BSA solvent as the organization rapidly expanded. The exuberant personality of U.S. senior statesman Theodore Roosevelt looms large throughout The Scouting Party as an influential early patron and at times critic of BSA as it embraced pacifism in the initial years of the First World War. Upon U.S. entry into the conflict in 1917, however, BSA threw itself behind the war effort, in the process becoming a quinte
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Good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. Could have library markings. Ships promptly!
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Used; Like New. Used; Like New. 10-C-29 Red Honor Press 2010 Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket has very light wear. Book Condition; Like New Jacket Condition; Like New. 2010. First Edition. HARDCOVER.
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0978983637. Stated first edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Red Honor Press in 2010. Light gray covers with gilt lettering on spine. Bottom edge of pages has slight smudging, and top edge has a faint line. Book is in very good plus condition. DJ is torn at top by spine and is in good condition.; 9.10 X 6.30 X 1.20 inches; 312 pages.
