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Seton Essays
Short pieces written by the man himself
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...
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....
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...
The Arctic Wolf by Ernest Thompson Seton
The White Wolf’s Wonder World 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 Arctic Wolf His Primitive Simplicity/Vol. I pg. 351-352 “As one ponders on the lives and...
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...
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...
The Gray Fox by Ernest Thompson Seton
Twixt Cat & Fox 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. At the end he describes the study of natural history “as a mosaic that is the dream of every wise...
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’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 Coyote by Ernest Thompson Seton
Coyote Head, life study 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. For an update about this subject check out Project Coyote and Dan Flores. The Coyote How to Destroy...
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