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Short pieces written by the man himself
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...
The Cougar Part I by Ernest Thompson Seton
Skull of Cougar 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. Primitive Numbers/Vol. I pg. 64-66 “The early writers speak of the Cougars as formerly abundant; in considerable...
Preface by Ernest Thompson Seton
Mosaic Image: pixibay.com This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. It appeared in Vol. I pg. ix. Preface “There was once a great mosaic, constructed of precious stones, jewels, and gold,...
A Hope by Ernest Thompson Seton
Big Flying-Squirrel This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-28) by Ernest Thompson Seton. It appeared in Vol. IV, pg. 384. A Hope In my quest for understanding of the little wild souls around us, I feel I am going wisely. I...
Apologia, Molly Cottontail, from Seton
Untitled drawing from Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton As you will no doubt know, the apologia (defense) has been an important literary form for the past 2500 years. Perhaps no writer in that time has matched Seton for vigor in standing up for what he...
Dig This Seton and Pocket Gopher
Pocket Gopher by Ernest Thompson Seton 1892 Seton was the first to publish that in some places the Pocket Gopher provides a service practiced elsewhere by earthworms: aeration of the soil. (He devoted many pages of Life-Histories of Northern Animals to...
Seton Describes Muskrats as Champion Diggers
Sketch and plan of a Muskrat den at Cos Cob, Conn., July, 1905, from Life-Histories of Northern Animals, 1909 What’s in a name? Apparently, the great Carl Linnaeus believed the Muskrat closely related to beavers, placing the creatures together in the genus Castor...
A Nest of Mice and Some Voles
The Singing Mouse, drawing by Ernest Thompson Seton, Academy for the Love of Learning Deer mice and house mice take turns trying to invade my house. This ends badly for them (dispatching traps, never poison) but to give them their due, they keep trying. Seton...
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