by David L. Witt | Apr 26, 2021 | Guest Writers
Bear camouflaged within pine branches This is the second installment of John Burroughs’ 1903 attack on the credentials of Ernest Thompson Seton as a legitimate “naturalist.” Burroughs published a long essay calling into the question to accuracy of several writers. At...
by David L. Witt | Apr 23, 2021 | Guest Writers
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus in adopted natural habitat outside my window By the beginning of 1903 Seton had experienced a four-year run of extraordinary book sales successes beginning with Wild Animals I Have Known. While this good fortune would last for another two...
by David L. Witt | Apr 2, 2021 | Guest Writers
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...
by David L. Witt | Feb 5, 2021 | Guest Writers
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...
by David L. Witt | Dec 18, 2020 | Guest Writers
“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...
by David L. Witt | Mar 9, 2020 | Guest Writers
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...
