We Are Americans, We Are Scouts: The Chief Scout Citizen on Building a Scouting Way of Life
A lifelong Scout and adult leader, David C. Scott has been researching the emergence of the worldwide Scouting movement for the past decade. He has personally compiled a comprehensive archive of original documents pertaining to the early history of Scouting and is an avid collector of literature from the British and American founders of Scouting and related figures. Mr. Scott is a regular contributor to theJournalof the International Scouting Collectors Association.Mr. Scott is a member of the Boy Scouts of America s national Speakers Bank as well as numerous lineal and national patriotic societies including the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of the Republic of Texas, the Military Society of the War of 1812, the Jamestowne Society, and the Presidential Families of America, being a first cousin (5 generations removed) to President James K. Polk and a second cousin (8 generations removed) to President George Washington.David C. Scott also is the co-author ofThe Scouting Party, a unique book that examines the inner workings of the Boy Scouts of America in its first decade.