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Seton Essays
Short pieces written by the man himself
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Gray Wolf by Ernest Thompson Seton
Blanca’s Head. Life Study, 1894, 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. Also, check out this wonderful new film about wolves and Hopi culture. The Gray-Wolf Numbers of...
The Harmless Lynx by Ernest Thompson Seton
Lynx 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 Harmless Lynx/Vol. I pg. 198 “It is nearly 20 years since I killed any wild animal, and that was a lynx....
The Cougar Part II by Ernest Thompson Seton
Life Studies 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 Chase of The Cougar/Vol. I pg. 109 “On my desk before me now is a huge mass of printed matter...
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