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Boy Scouts of America (view source)
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Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941) organized the Boy Pioneers, Sons of Daniel Boone (in 1905), two years before the Boy Scout movement was born in England. He later was National Scout Commissioner of the United States for three decades. William Dickson Boyce (1859-1929) incorporated the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, making it a viable unit by bringing the Woodcraft Indians and the Sons of Daniel Boone into the Boy Scouts.
Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941) organized the Boy Pioneers, Sons of Daniel Boone (in 1905), two years before the Boy Scout movement was born in England. He later was National Scout Commissioner of the United States for three decades. William Dickson Boyce (1859-1929) incorporated the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, making it a viable unit by bringing the Woodcraft Indians and the Sons of Daniel Boone into the Boy Scouts.
Growth was rapid. By 1921 there were 400,000 boy scouts and 17,000 scoutmasters.
===Masculinity===
===Masculinity===
Scouting is not just for the benefit of the boys. It is also an opportunity for adult men to mentor youth and themselves practivce outdoor skills. The success of the Scouts resulted in part from increased concern over the maintenance of masculinity in a world of cities and office buildings. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] often sounded the tocsin. Adult men in the 1900-1930 era believed that the opportunities for the development and expression of masculinity were being restricted. Scouting was a means to counteract perceived forces of feminization in the world of adolescents. The Scouting movement provided adult men, denied by their occupations, an opportunity to validate the traditional image of masculinity.
Scouting is not just for the benefit of the boys. It is also an opportunity for adult men to mentor youth and themselves practivce outdoor skills. The success of the Scouts resulted in part from increased concern over the maintenance of masculinity in a world of cities and office buildings. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] often sounded the tocsin. Adult men in the 1900-1930 era believed that the opportunities for the development and expression of masculinity were being restricted. Scouting was a means to counteract perceived forces of feminization in the world of adolescents. The Scouting movement provided adult men, denied by their occupations, an opportunity to validate the traditional image of masculinity.