by David L. Witt | Jun 15, 2025 | Seton Essays
Beaver Poses & details 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. If some evening, you are camping out beside a stream or pond in the forested mountain West you might...
by David L. Witt | Jun 12, 2025 | Seton Essays
Courage 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. I have watched them act aggressively towards dogs. Running and jumping from tree to tree, coming down broad trunks...
by David L. Witt | May 31, 2025 | Seton Essays
Sketches of Norway Reindeer by Ernest Thompson Seton Warm Winters, Warmer Summers This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. By the time of Seton’s 1907 trip to the Arctic Prairies (Northwest...
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...
