| Sons of Daniel Boone | |||
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| Founded | 1905 | ||
| Defunct | 1910; merged with the Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Founder | Daniel Carter Beard | ||
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The Sons of Daniel Boone (sometimes called the Society of the Sons of Daniel Boone), later the Boy Pioneers of America, was a youth program developed by Daniel Carter Beard in 1905 based on the American frontiersman. When Dan Beard joined the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910 as one of their national Scout commissioners, he merged his group into the fledgling BSA.