author
active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
Best known for fast-moving Boy Scouts adventures, this early 20th-century writer published a string of action-packed stories between 1909 and 1917. The books mix outdoor challenges, teamwork, and wartime drama in a style made for young readers eager for adventure.
12 Audiobooks
The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods; Or, The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island; or, Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts Afoot in France; or, With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire; or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts on the Trail; or, Scouting through the Big Game Country
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts on War Trails in Belgium; Or, Caught Between Hostile Armies
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge; Or, Marooned Among the Moonshiners
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna; or, The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber; Or, The Search for the Lost Tenderfoot
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine
by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
About the author
Herbert Carter is the name attached to a run of boys' adventure novels published in the 1910s, especially the Boy Scouts books listed by Project Gutenberg. Those stories appeared during the years when the Boy Scout movement was new and hugely popular, and they were aimed at young readers who liked action, loyalty, and practical courage.
Sources found during this search suggest that Herbert Carter was a pseudonym, most often linked to St. George Henry Rathborne. A books reference on Google Books describes the Boy Scouts series as written under that pen name, and LibriVox also identifies Herbert Carter as a pseudonym for Rathborne; a specialist vintage-books page adds that Rathborne wrote most of the 12-volume series, with William Chipman credited for volume 9.
The books themselves give a good sense of the appeal: camping trips, wilderness tests, floods, hidden mines, moonshiners, and eventually World War I settings in Belgium and France. Because reliable biographical details about the person behind the name are scarce in the sources reviewed here, it is safest to treat Herbert Carter mainly as a publishing name associated with lively Scout-era juvenile fiction rather than a fully documented public literary figure.