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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...
Seton Indians and Woodcraft 1902
Photograph of young Louise Sangree with her parents and siblings. She is standing in left profile, back against a tree. The following handwritten 1902 letter from a remarkably observant young woman, Louise “Luise” Sangree, is important for being a first-hand account...
Mule Deer Visit Academy for the Love of Learning
Sharing the Orchard Marita Prandoni, Farm to Table Chef After a wet spring and an above-average monsoon season, the Academy green spaces this past summer were lush as ever. The orchard on the east side, in particular, has received many winged and four-legged visitors...
First Boy Scout Camp at Silver Bay with Ernest Thompson Seton
Here is another find from the Seton archives at the Academy for the Love of Learning—an account by William W. Edel (1894—1996) of the first Boy Scouts of America camp which took place at Silver Bay, New York at the end of August 1910.* Organized by the Y.M.C.A., the...
Bearly There: An account of an Ernest Thompson Seton 1906 Lecture
Here is an unattributed article from The Winnipeg Telegram, Saturday, September 1, 1906. Seton traveled a great deal to giving paid lectures and in later years (probably earlier ones as well) selling his books. This is an account of one of those appearances. Source:...
Seton’s Relationship with Native Americans and First People by Dee Seton Barber
(Ernest Thompson Seton’s daughter Dee Seton Barber worked tirelessly throughout her lifetime promoting the Seton Legacy, that is, the teachings and philosophy of her father. The words that follow are her own, probably written in the 1990s. I recently discovered Dee’s...
New Book About Ernest Thompson Seton
Seton has been the subject of several biographies, from children’s books to dissertations to an exhibition catalog (mine!). Most of his biographers were too young to have known Seton; to my knowledge Jack Samson was the only one who met him. It turns out there is an...
Lucia and the Bear
In his first book of stories, Wild Animals I Have Known, Seton included “Bingo, the Story of My Dog.” In the account, the narrator is caught in his own wolf traps and is soon surrounded by wolves. From afar, Bingo senses his plight, and comes to the rescue chasing...
Big Dramatic News from Scotland and Seton’s Father
In 1901, Ernest Thompson Seton, having achieved his goal of gaining widespread fame and growing wealth, turned his attention to researching his ancestry. Monsignor Robert Seton had published An Old Family, Or, The Setons of Scotland and America in 1899. ETS maintained...
The Work of Ernest Thompson Seton by Nancy Bell
Here are excerpts from an article appearing in The Humane Review, an anti-animal cruelty journal, published in London, April 1903, pp. 11 – 20. A copy of the journal, from the Seton Castle Archives, is found in the Seton Gallery library at the Academy for the Love of...
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