by David L. Witt | Oct 26, 2024 | Guest Writers
Title Page detail, Companions on the Trail Passing the seventy-eighth anniversary of Seton’s death (October 23), I will note that of all his recent biographers, only Jack Samson actually knew him. Fortunately, Seton met the novelist and memoir writer...
by David L. Witt | Apr 4, 2023 | Guest Writers
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)...
by David L. Witt | Mar 22, 2023 | Guest Writers
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...
by David L. Witt | Feb 8, 2022 | Guest Writers
Photograph of Edgar M. Robinson. 1931 Massasoit, Springfield College’s Yearbook. Courtesy of Springfield College, Archives and Special Collections In April 1910 the YMCA loaned one of its top executives, Edgar M. Robinson (1867-1951), to the newly formed Boy Scouts of...
by David L. Witt | May 14, 2021 | Guest Writers
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, Robert W. Wood, 1907 (Check out Wood’s book.) Unfortunately for Seton, the Nature Faker controversy just would not die down. Having seemingly run its course in June 1907, it flared back up in the September issue of...
by David L. Witt | May 11, 2021 | Guest Writers
John Burroughs at Wyndygoul, Seton’s estate, undated Like a case of poison ivy that will not go away, John Burroughs continued his attacks on the nature fakers in February 1904, this time in The Century Magazine. This time he focused his fury on William Long...
