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The Girl Scout National Center West was located just outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, among the Big Horn Mountains, [1] near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon. [2] A portion of the center was one of the largest encampments in the world at 15,400 acres (62 km 2) (14,600 acres (59 km 2) also reported) of rugged wilderness near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon near the Bighorn National Forest.
In total 1100 girls and women attended, 600 of which were from overseas. Forty countries were represented. As Olave Baden-Powell wrote in 1923: "Some two years ago it was suggested that the Girl Guides Association should hold a big gathering similar in character to the great International Jamboree held by the Boy Scouts in 1920.
It was built from 243 acres of land, lakes, and buildings, purchased from private land, [3] [4] and named for Julia Cobb Crowell (1877–1957), a Cleveland civic leader and Girl Scout commissioner in the 1920s. [5] The land for Camp Crowell came was accumulated by James B. Kirby and sold to the Cleveland Girl Scout Council in 1937. [1] It was a ...
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting [ 3 ] (formally Boy Scouts).
Girl Guides in camp, 1930. Following the origin of the Boy Scouts in 1907 many girls took up Scouting. [23] In 1909, a number of Girl Scouts attended the Boy Scout Rally in Crystal Palace Park [24] The girls told Robert Baden Powell that they wanted 'to do the same thing as the boys'. [25] Guiding was introduced to respond to the demand. [21]
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A Girl Guide or Girl Scout is a member of a section of some Guiding organisations who is between the ages of 10 and 14. Age limits are different in each organisation. Robert Baden-Powell chose to name his organization for girls "the Girl Guides". In the United States and several East Asian countries the term "Girl Scout" is used instead.