by David L. Witt | Sep 23, 2015 | Arctic
{In late July and early August 2015 I led an expedition to the Arctic region of Canada’s Northwest Territories researching the Ernest Thompson Seton and Edward Preble expedition of 1907. We followed their route around Aylmer Lake located northeast of Great Slave Lake....
by David L. Witt | Sep 15, 2015 | Arctic
This is the first in a series giving a day-by-day report on the expedition to Aylmer Lake in the Canadian Arctic sponsored by the Academy for the Love of Learning. The purpose of the trip was to follow the northernmost part of the Seton-Preble expedition of 1907. The...
by David L. Witt | Apr 14, 2015 | Seton Annotated Publications
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...
by David L. Witt | Apr 10, 2015 | Guest Writers
Seton has been the subject of several biographies, from children’s books to dissertations to an exhibition catalog (mine!). Most of his biographers were too young to have known Seton; to my knowledge Jack Samson was the only one who met him. It turns out there is an...
by David L. Witt | Jan 31, 2015 | Lobo, Wolves & Wildlife Conservation
January 31, 2015 marks the 121th anniversary of the death of Lobo, a wolf trapped by Ernest Thompson Seton along the Corrumpa River in northeastern New Mexico. I have written in my book on Seton and elsewhere in this blog about how he underwent a psychological and...
