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118 years ago Today in Scouting History

  • Doug Cook
  • May 18, 2018
  • 1 min read

Headline of the Guthrie Daily Leader, 19 May 1900

After 216 days of seige of in the second Boer War (1899-1902) Mafeking, a small railroad town in South Africa, is relieved by British reinforcements from local militia surrounding a then unknown Colonel Robert Baden Powell.

The news traveled around the world and a British officer begins a path that would lead towards the creation of the scout movement.

Robert Baden Powell, 1896



A post card at this time would be addressed as Guthrie, Oklahoma, Indian Territory to insure delivery.


Guthrie – circa 1896


Guthrie would not achieve statehood until 1907 – the same year Robert Baden Powell conducts his first scout campout on Brownsea Island, UK on the first of August.


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