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Seton Annotated Publications
A guide to Seton’s major published work
The Indian Writings of Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustration from Two Little Savages For all that Seton has been largely forgotten by the general public, a small cadre of scholars and journalists continue to chart his legacy. While his nature-based work is usually viewed favorably, scholars who come out of Native...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #11 Trail and Campfire
This is the eleventh, and perhaps the final in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books, adding two more titles to the existing list. 1932 Famous Animal Stories: Animal Myths, Fables, Fairy Tales, Stories of Real Animals (New York: Brentano’s...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #10 Arctic Fox, Buffalo Wind, Trail of an Artist Naturalist
This is the tenth and final in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1937-1945. 1937 The Biography of an Arctic Fox (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company) Quote: “This is the story of the cache, and many they made that...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #9 Bannertail, Lives of Game Animals, Gospel of the Redman
This is the ninth in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1922-1936. 1922 Bannertail, The Story of a Graysquirrel (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons) Quote: “And foolish man, who slays the Graysquirrel in his reckless lust...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #8
This is the eighth in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1917-1921. 1917 The Preacher of Cedar Mountain (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company) Quote: “There were women who boldly proclaimed that sex and mind had little...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #7 Wild Animals at Home, Manual of the Woodcraft Indians, Wild Animal Ways
This is the seventh in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1913-1916. 1913 Wild Animals At Home (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.) Quote: “Had I asked them to join me killing a man, shooting up the town, or otherwise...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #6 Boy Scout Handbook, Rolf in the Woods, The Arctic Prairies, The Book of Woodcraft
This is the sixth in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1910-1912. 1910 Boy Scouts of America, A Handbook of Woodcraft, Scouting, and Life-Craft (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company.) Quote: “The Woodcraft and...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #5 Biography of a Silver Fox, Life-Histories of Northern Animals
This is the fifth in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1908-1909. 1909 The Biography of a Silver Fox (New York: The Century Company) Quote: “...so furtive are they, so clever and so unremitting are mother and father, that...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #4 Woodmyth and Fable, Animal Heroes, Natural History of the Ten Commandments
This is the fourth in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1905-1907. 1905 Woodmyth and Fable (New York: The Century Company) Quote: “Most boys gather in the woods pretty and odd bits of moss, fungus, and other treasures...
Ernest Thompson Seton Stories #3 How to Play Indian or The Red Book, Two Little Savages, Monarch the Big Bear of Tallac,
This is the third in a series, an annotated listing of Ernest Thompson Seton books covering the years 1902-1904. 1903 How to Play Indian. Directions for Organizing a Tribe of Boy Indians and Making their Teepees in the True Indian Style (Philadelphia: The Curtis...
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