Boy Scout poster during World War One encouraging participatin in the Third Liberty Loan.
The Boy Scouts of America were part of a huge international movement started by Lord Baden Powell, a British Army officer who had once been the British Army's chief cavalryman. Distressed by the lack of outdoor skills in British soldiers during the Boer War, he created the scouts tin encourage manly virtues in youth. A girls variant soon followed. The early movement emphasized "scouting", i.e., bush craft, as well as many virtues and Christian morals.
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