by David L. Witt | May 23, 2025 | Seton Essays
The Wonder Buck by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Around the time when Seton wrote this, the elk population of New Mexico was down to only a few individuals....
by David L. Witt | May 16, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Cute Coyote by Ernest Thompson Seton Earlier this month I posted a Seton essay about the metaphoric Coyote as the Spirit of the West. His admiration for the species is evident from the concluding paragraphs of “Tito, The Story of the Coyote that Learned How.” In this...
by David L. Witt | May 8, 2025 | Seton Essays
Irish Beach, California, September 2024 by dlw This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Foreword of Comfort/Vol III pg. vii. “I sat on a low cliff above the booming surf to-day. The...
by David L. Witt | Apr 30, 2025 | Seton Essays
Fine Fat Prairie Dogs by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. The Black-footed Ferret has verged between on the edge of extinction to thought extinct to back on the...
by David L. Witt | Apr 22, 2025 | Seton Essays
Range of the Marten and Its Ken (detail) by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) written by Ernest Thompson Seton. He pioneered the use of range maps in nature publications of which the one...
