The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts: The History of the Scouting Movement and Its Most Popular Organizations

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty, to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight." - Scout Oath“Girls must be partners and comrades, rather than dolls.” – attributed to Agnes Baden-PowellGiven the prominence of Scouting culture in the United States, many assume that the movement is rooted in North America. On the contrary, the movement was initiated in and spread forth from the United Kingdom, more specifically in England. It was the brainchild of the 1st Baron Baden-Powell, a beloved and decorated war veteran armed with not only Martini-Henry rifles and Lee-Enfield carbines, but a vision that would one day be espoused by every nation on Earth except Andorra, China, Cuba, North Korea, and Laos.Baden-Powell had honed his tracking and scouting skills in war, and in the course he publis