Dear Lobo, I have been writing these to you yearly, expressing appreciation for all your work in the world, even dating a new historical era from the date of your death, now that BC, AD, CE, etc. seem irrelevant. January 31 of the Environmental Era is a special day...
According to Julian/Gregorian calendar reckoning, we have entered the 2016th year following the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The religious descriptor A.D. (in the year of the Lord) has been in widespread use for over twelve hundred years. The more secular C.E. (common...
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...
No hurrahs for Hollywood, but Seton’s Lobo story inspired two films. Clash of the Wolves (1925) starred Rin Tin Tin as “Lobo” in his 9thHollywood feature. Many years later, Disney released the Legend of Lobo (1962), “A tale of the Old West told in song and story by...
“Lobo stands for Dignity and Love-constancy.” – Ernest Thompson Seton Wolf Skulls The high ceilinged, dimly lit, quiet hall in Ottawa sees few visitors. Two wolf skulls gleam a startling white against a black cloth background, laid out on a heavy wood...
Seton’s published account of the Lobo story came out in the November 1894 issue of Scribner’sMagazine – ten months after the wolf’s death. Repackaged with other stories late in 1898, his book Wild Animals I Have Known became an immediate best seller. The book has...
