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Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850– June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Early life

Beard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio into a family of artists. As a youth, he explored the woods and made sketches of nature. He lived at 322 East Third Street in Covington, Kentucky near the Licking River, where he learned the stories of Kentucky pioneer life. The home is now located in the Licking-Riverside Historic District.
He started an early career as an engineer and surveyor. He attended art school in New York City. He wrote a series of articles for St. Nicholas magazine that later formed the basis for the American Boy's Handy Book. He was a member of the Student Art League, where he met and befriended Ernest Thompson Seton in 1883. He illustrated a number of books for Mark Twain, and for other authors such as Ernest Crosby.
Beard became the editor of Recreation magazine and wrote a monthly column for youth. He founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, basing it on American frontier traditions. He later moved his column to Women's Home Companion. After conflicts with a new editor, he moved to the Pictorial Review. Since Women's Home Companion retained the rights to the name, he simply renamed the organization to Boy Pioneers of America.

Scouting

He merged his organization into the Boy Scouts of America when it was founded in 1910. Beard became one of the first National Scout Commissioners of the Boy Scouts and served it for 30 years. The work of both Beard and Ernest Thompson Seton are in large part the basis of the Traditional Scouting movement.
   Beard also helped his sister organize the Camp Fire Girls and became president of the Camp Fire Club of America. Beard was a Freemason in a New York Lodge, and an award for Masonic Scouters has been named in his honor.
   Beard was also involved with the Culver Academies' summer camp program for many years, which used his "Sons of Daniel Boone" program. This program still exists as the Academy's Culver Woodcraft Camp.
   Prior to the establishment of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Dan Beard was recipient of the first and only "gold Eagle badge" awarded at the Second National Training Conference of Scout Executives held in 1922 in Blue Ridge, North Carolina.
   Beard died on June 11, 1941, at his home (named Brooklands) in Suffern, New York. He was buried near his home at the Brick Church Cemetery in Spring Valley, New York.
   The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge, which carries I-471 across the Ohio River, was named for him. A life-size bronze statue of Daniel Carter Beard and Boy Scout, created by world-renowned sculptor Kenneth Bradford, stands in Covington, Kentucky near his boyhood home, now a National Historic Landmark.
   At the Philmont Scout Ranch in the Northern Region, there's a staffed campsite named after him. At that campsite scouts work on low impact camping and participate in team building activities. The campsite is also on the edge of the Valle Vidal, and much vegetation around it's burned down due to many fires.
   The J.H.S. 189 Daniel Carter Beard School in Flushing, New York carries his name, also a park near by the school also has the same name.
   The more camping-intensive half of the Forestburg Scout Camp in Forestburg, NY is named after Dan Beard.

Bibliography

The American Boy's Handy Book, 1882, 1903 (still in print)
The American Girl's Handy Book, 1887 (still in print)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889 (illustrator, still in print)
The American Boy's Book of Sport, 1890
Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance, 1892 (still in print)
The Outdoor Handy Book, 1896 (still in print)
Jack of All Trades, 1900, 1904?
Field and Forest Handy Book, 1906 (still in print)
Handicraft for Outdoor Boys, 1906
Animal Book and Campfire Stories, 1907
Boy Pioneers and Sons of Daniel Boone, 1909
Boat Building, and Boating, 1912 (still in print)
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties, 1914 (still in print)
The American Boy's Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles, 1916
The American Boy's Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols, 1918
The American Boy's Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft, 1920 (still in print)
The American Boy's Book of Wild Animals, 1921
The Black Wolf-Pack, 1922,
American Boy's Book of Birds and Brownies of the Woods, 1923
Do It Yourself, 1925
Wisdom of the Woods, 1926, 1927?
Buckskin Book For Buckskin Men and Boys, 1929
Hardly A Man is Now Alive, 1939 (his autobiography)

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