The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories

By Franklin K. Mathiews

Book Overview

The campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the lips. The Boy Scouts of America has incorporated the "campfire" in its program for council and friendship and story-telling. In one volume, the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories makes available to scoutmasters and other leaders a goodly number of stories worthy of their attention, and when well told likely to arrest and hold the interest of boys in their early teens, when "stirs the blood--to bubble in the veins."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483962628
• ISBN13: 9781483962627
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

What the World Needs Today

The rating is for several reasons. First, the stories in this book are the type we need today to instill in boys growing up. Second, it promotes friendship and loyalty. Third, and perhaps the most important is the fact it contains a Zane Grey story--The Wild Horse Hunter. This story, The Wild Horse Hunter is an excerpt from the novel Wildfire where Lin Sloan is tracking Wildfire through the deep and rugged canyons of the Colorado river. It is chapters 4, 5, 6, and most of 7 from the book. Yet that should net deter you from buying this book.