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The Scouting Party examines in particular the role of British-Canadian naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton , whose trailblazing Woodcraft Indians strongly influenced the British founder of Scouting, General Robert Baden-Powell . Seton became the intellectual mainspring of the Boy Scouts of America in its formative years. But BSA organizers preferred Baden-Powell’s more conventional model to Seton’s vision of a youth movement based on the culture and values of the American Indian.
Seton, well known to Americans for his best-selling book, Wild Animals I Have Known , and his vivid lectures on wildlife, found himself increasingly at odds with BSA management between 1910 and 1915 over issues of organizational philosophy. He also clashed frequently with Daniel C. Beard , an illustrator for Mark Twain and founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone, a rival to Seton’s Indians, over precedence in the field. Seton and Beard both wrangled with BSA Executive Secretary James E. West, who arbitrated the
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