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Review of Art Anatomy of Animals

Review of Art Anatomy of Animals

Cover Art, Quartier Latin, Vol II January 1897 No. 6, Compiled monthly in Paris and printed and published by llifee & Son, of London, #30/p.176, p. 177 One of my worthy correspondents (more worthy than me since he, not I, discovered this little gem of a review)...

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Seton and John Burroughs Reconcile

Seton and John Burroughs Reconcile

Salutation, Burroughs to Roosevelt Ernest Thompson Seton read books by John Burroughs as a young man, inspired by the older man’s love of nature. This made the shock all the greater when Burroughs attacked him during the Nature Faker controversy of 1903-04. He...

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James B. Pond Writes About Seton

James B. Pond Writes About Seton

Author photo from Eccentricities of genius Lecture organizer James B. Pond (1838-1903) propelled Ernest Thompson Seton to great success in the “Lyceum business” in the year following the publication of Wild Animals I Have Known (1898). Pond represented Mark Twain and...

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1899 Review of Wild Animals I Have Known

1899 Review of Wild Animals I Have Known

Seton Illustration at end of Wild Animals I Have Known Seton’s first best-seller, Wild Animals I Have Known, became an immediate sensation. I know this because Seton said so himself in Trail of an Artist-Naturalist: “When one has published a series of successful...

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Wild Animals I Have Known Published 122 Years Ago

Wild Animals I Have Known Published 122 Years Ago

“Lobo,” a contemporary “Collie Dog” Seton’s first best seller, Wild Animals I Have Known, propelled him to fame and considerable wealth as a proverbial overnight success in December 1898. The following year The American Naturalist published a review in Vol. XXXIII on...

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