The Scouts were based on the ideas of two men. Robert Baden-Powell a British war hero who wrote Aids to Scouting in 1899 and American Frederick Russell Burnham who grew up on an Indian reservation in Minnesota andtaught Baden-Powell woodcraft. foxnews.com/us/boy-scouts-… 
If you give son or daughter one Victorian era adventure book to read you must give them Scouting on Two Continents while you read "The Splendid Savage" And make sure you take them into the wilderness as often as you can to teach them well. outsideonline.com/2050951/most-i…
I was kicked out of the Cubs because I couldn't afford the ten cents we had to pay every week. Never was a scout. But then again I never wanted for adventure as a child. But I do believe that with the death of the Boy Scouts something precious and important is slipping away.
So that's why I wrote a book for kids...really for adults. Just because. amazon.com/Books-Robert-Y…
