title: The Boy Scout Handbook: The Trail to Eagle
author: Robert Birkby
description: Over 431 million copies of the Official Handbook for Boys have been distributed since this first edition was published in 1911. The original Boy Scout Handbook standardized American scouting and emphasized the virtues and qualifications for scouting, delineating what the American Boy Scouts declared was needed to be a "well-developed, well-informed boy." The book includes information on the organization of scouting, signs and signaling, camping, scouting games, and a description of several scouting honors.
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  The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol
  
  
  CHAPTER I. SCOUTS ON THE TRAIL
  
  CHAPTER II. A CRUISE TO THE ISLAND
  
  CHAPTER III. BOY SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE
  
  CHAPTER IV. SAM IN DIRE STRAITS
  
  CHAPTER V. THE BULLY SPRINGS A SURPRISE
  
  CHAPTER VI. AN ISLAND MYSTERY
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE STOLEN UNIFORMS
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE HYDROPLANE QUEERLY RECOVERED
  
  CHAPTER X. WINNING THE CONTEST
  
  [CHAPTER XI. A FORTUNATE
  DISCOVERY](The%20Boy%20Scouts%20of%20the%20Eagle%20Pat_split_001.html#filepos155944)
  
  [CHAPTER XII. JACK FORMS A
  PLOT](The%20Boy%20Scouts%20of%20the%20Eagle%20Pat_split_001.html#filepos169115)
  
  [CHAPTER XIII. THE “FLYING FISH” ON HER
  METTLE](The%20Boy%20Scouts%20of%20the%20Eagle%20Pat_split_001.html#filepos180132)
  
  [CHAPTER XIV. THE EAGLES IN
  CAMP](The%20Boy%20Scouts%20of%20the%20Eagle%20Pat_split_001.html#filepos191534)
  
  [CHAPTER XV. THE CHUMS IN
  PERIL](The%20Boy%20Scouts%20of%20the%20Eagle%20Pat_split_001.html#filepos205178)
  
  [CHAPTER XVI. LOST IN T