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Seton Essays
Short pieces written by the man himself
The Gray Wolf Part III
The Gray Wolf by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1892 for Forest and Stream magazine This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Seton’s analysis of Gray Wolf behavior was groundbreaking at the time. Since...
The Gray Wolf Part II
Range Of The American Gray—Wolf (detail) 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. See Part I, The Gray Wolf, and the beginning of a series on Lobo, the wolf made famous...
Antelope Jack Meets Its Fate
Ear of Antelope Jack 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. In this case, the tragedy of the highway. This species—Lupus alleni—lives in Mexico and southern Arizona....
The Beaver According To Seton
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...
Rocky Mountain Chickaree gets a good report from Seton
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...
Barren Ground Caribou
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...
Seton Eulogy for The Wapiti
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....
Foreword of Comfort
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...
Seton’s bleak outlook for the Black-Footed Ferret
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...
The Pine Marten according to Ernest Thompson Seton
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...
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