author
active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
Known to readers as Herbert Carter, this prolific adventure writer filled the early 1900s with brisk Boy Scout stories packed with travel, danger, and teamwork. The name was a pseudonym, but the books helped define a lively corner of boys' fiction in the years just before and during World War I.
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 Afoot in France; or, With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne
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' 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 was one of the pen names used by St. George Henry Rathborne (1854–1938), an American writer remembered for a huge output of popular fiction. Sources on Rathborne describe him as an especially prolific author of boys' stories and dime novels, with a long career that produced hundreds of books.
Under the Herbert Carter name, he is associated with works published roughly from 1909 to 1917, including many entries in the Boy Scouts series. These books typically mix outdoor adventure, friendship, practical skills, and a fast-moving sense of peril, which made them a natural fit for young readers of the period.
Rathborne also wrote under many other pseudonyms, so Herbert Carter represents just one part of a much larger writing life. Even so, that name remains closely tied to early Scout fiction and to the energetic, wholesome adventure stories that were popular with young readers in the early twentieth century.