by David L. Witt | Jun 15, 2025 | Seton Essays
Beaver Poses & details by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. If some evening, you are camping out beside a stream or pond in the forested mountain West you might...
by David L. Witt | Jun 12, 2025 | Seton Essays
Courage by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. I have watched them act aggressively towards dogs. Running and jumping from tree to tree, coming down broad trunks...
by David L. Witt | May 31, 2025 | Seton Essays
Sketches of Norway Reindeer by Ernest Thompson Seton Warm Winters, Warmer Summers This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. By the time of Seton’s 1907 trip to the Arctic Prairies (Northwest...
by David L. Witt | May 23, 2025 | Seton Essays
The Wonder Buck by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Around the time when Seton wrote this, the elk population of New Mexico was down to only a few individuals....
by David L. Witt | May 8, 2025 | Seton Essays
Irish Beach, California, September 2024 by dlw This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Foreword of Comfort/Vol III pg. vii. “I sat on a low cliff above the booming surf to-day. The...
by David L. Witt | Apr 30, 2025 | Seton Essays
Fine Fat Prairie Dogs by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. The Black-footed Ferret has verged between on the edge of extinction to thought extinct to back on the...
