by David L. Witt | Dec 30, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Wolf-less mountain in Scotland Ernest Thompson Seton wrote about his connection to Clan Cameron and to the name Seton. Seton-Thompson v. Thompson Seton He was so enamored of his Seton heritage that as a teenager he changed his last name from Thompson to Seton,...
by David L. Witt | Nov 11, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Book cover, The Serviceberry (John Burgoyne, illustrator) I am always on the search for contemporary books addressing themes covered by Seton. For him, the realm of Nature is not only biological but also existing as a moral universe. Another facet of Nature is...
by David L. Witt | Oct 23, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Seton and the Wolf, undated Ernest Thompson Seton died midmorning Wednesday October 23, 1946, in his bedroom on the main floor of Seton Castle, Santa Fe, New Mexico. His final journal entries ended somewhat earlier. Even though the event happened seventy-nine years...
by David L. Witt | Oct 1, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Our hero. Click here for more on Jane’s life and work.
by David L. Witt | May 16, 2025 | Curator's Notes
Cute Coyote by Ernest Thompson Seton Earlier this month I posted a Seton essay about the metaphoric Coyote as the Spirit of the West. His admiration for the species is evident from the concluding paragraphs of “Tito, The Story of the Coyote that Learned How.” In this...
by David L. Witt | Nov 29, 2024 | Curator's Notes
The Natural History of the Ten Commandments by Ernest Thompson Seton must be his most unusual book. While he had significant grounding in fundamentalist—Calvinist bible study, he had long since given up on organized Christianity. Published in 1907 (the same year as...
