The Silver Buffalo Award is the national-level distinguished service award of Scouting America. It is presented for noteworthy and extraordinary service to youth on a national basis, either as part of
Silver Buffalo award and citation presented to the Unknown Scout
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with
Silver Buffalo Award
…James E. West. Since then, the awards have been presented on an annual basis in alphabetical order. The first Silver Buffalo Award was conferred upon Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement and Chief Scout of the World. This award is represented by a small buffalo statue in Gilwell Park. The second went…
Baden-Powell in scout uniform, c. 1910–1920
Siege of Mafeking, 10 shillings (1900), Second Boer War currency issued by authority of Colonel Robert Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell on a patriotic postcard in 1900
A World War I propaganda poster drawn by Baden-Powell