Boy's Life Magazine

Boys' Life magazine began publication March 1, 1911, as the "Boys' and Boy Scouts' magazine." (In 1911 "Boy Scouts" referred to the youth participants in several different "Scouting" organizations, including the BSA.) Founder and publisher George R. Barton of Boston, Massachusetts, issued Boys' Life twice monthly--the cost: 5c per issue. His market was the boys and "Scouts and Scouters" from several youth organizations such as Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians, Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone, and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The first BSA-published edition was July 1912. James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, was the magazine' s first BSA editor.