Word: woodcraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908-six years after Seton established his "Tribe of Woodcraft Indians." In 1910 the organization spread to the U.S. and the "Boy Scouts of America" was incorporated, absorbing Seton's "Indians" and also the "Sons of Daniel Boone...
...with heavy undergrowth and roofed with tall loblolly pines, moved a group headed by a lieutenant and a brace of ensigns wearing unseamanlike woodsman's boots and hunting knives. The newest course in the Navy's crowded curriculum for aviation cadets was about to begin: lessons in woodcraft for the young future flyers who might someday find themselves afoot and alone...
Heading the Navy's new course in woodcraft is Lieut. George D. Kepler, onetime professional guide in Pennsylvania. Assisting him are Ensigns Frank and John Craighead, authors of the manual for the course, Living off Land & Sea. At 27, the Craighead twins are already authorities on wild life. (One book they wrote on falconry brought them an invitation from a maharaja to be his guests. They spent nine months in India...
...must publish your facts." Result: Seton's Life Histories of Northern Animals and Lives of Game Animals (six volumes). He now murmurs: "Every scientific library in America today points to Seton's Lives as the last word and best authority on the subject." Seton also organized a woodcraft movement for lads under the petticoats of bird-loving Edward Bok's Ladies' Home Journal...