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While Jewell says his father-in-law opened the camp in 1911, it was actually 1916. "A Handbook of Private Schools"(1916)

The actual origin of the term can be credited in 1912 to Ernest Thomas Seaton(founder of the Boy Scouts of America) in his book entitled "The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore"(1912)