author
active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter
Best known as the name on a lively run of Boy Scouts adventures from the 1910s, this author wrote fast-moving stories full of campcraft, mystery, and outdoor action. The books were made for young readers who loved teamwork, grit, and the thrill of the trail.
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 War Trails in Belgium; Or, Caught Between Hostile Armies
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 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 in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine
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
About the author
"Herbert Carter" was a house name used on early 20th-century juvenile adventure fiction, especially the Boy Scouts series published between 1913 and 1917. Reliable sources connect the name mainly to the prolific American writer St. George Henry Rathborne, who used many pseudonyms over a long career writing popular adventure stories.
The Herbert Carter books follow the Silver Fox Patrol through campouts, wilderness trips, rescue missions, and wartime adventures. They have the brisk pace and cliffhanger spirit of classic boys' series fiction, blending scouting skills with danger, loyalty, and problem-solving in a way that made them popular with young readers of the period.
There is one wrinkle in the bibliography: sources note that volume 9 in the series was written by William P. Chipman, not Rathborne, and was reused under the Herbert Carter name. Because the real person behind the byline was not always presented clearly in the books themselves, the name is best understood as a publishing identity tied to a specific style of adventure storytelling rather than a single straightforward author biography.