#Ernest Thompson

[thewoodbetween]

From Red Ruff by Ernest Seton Thompson - art by Alexey Cherepanov

[politicaldilfs]

Georgia Governor DILFs

Jimmy Carter, Sonny Perdue, Herman Talmadge, Marvin Griffin, Ernest Vandiver, Carl Sanders, Melvin E. Thompson, Lester Maddox, Nathan Deal, George Busbee, Joe Frank Harris, Roy Barnes, Zell Miller, Brian Kemp

[thelastrenaissance]

The tale “Two Little Savages” by the Canadian writer Ernest Thompson Seton is an exciting book about the enigmatic world of animals and birds.

“Oh, the magic of the campfire! No unkind feeling long withstands its glow. For men to meet at the same campfire is to come closer, to have better understanding of each other, and to lay the foundations of lasting friendship”.

Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1846) was a prolific Canadian-American author and wildlife artist, who was also one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America. Woodland Tales is a reflection of his interests in the natural world, consisting of short stories about animals and the seasons. He split the book up into parts that he labeled as “Things to see in Springtime” or “Things to see in Wintertime,” with matching short stories. Throughout the book you can find many of his illustrations.

I was shelving something else when I found this book on accident, and I’m glad I opened it. The illustrations and stories vary between feeling like it’s something out of a fairy tale to something more scientific, such as a field guide. As a nature-lover myself, this book was a great find!

This particular edition is the 1922 printing of the book, originally published in 1921 by Doubleday, Page & Company In Garden City, N.Y. Another interesting thing about the book is the curious details I learned about Doubleday when researching it. For instance, during the relocation of the firm to Garden City in 1910, some of their operations were done out of a train station! The founder Frank Nelson Doubleday either ghost wrote or edited John D. Rockefeller’s autobiography, and he was also friends with Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Another interesting thing to note is that one of the company’s partners, Walter Hines Page, was also the ambassador to Great Britain during World War I. The Doubleday company and later its then president and CEO Nelson Doubleday, Jr., the grandson of the founder, owned the New York Mets baseball team from 1980-2002. What quirky little things to learn!

Beginning in the late 1980s, Doubleday began a series of mergers, becoming a  a division of Random House in 1998 and merging with Knopf Publishing Group in 2009, which today is part of Penguin Random House. I ended up learning more about the publisher than about the author or title, but that’s the rabbit hole one goes down sometimes when selecting a staff pick!

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-- Sarah W,. Special Collections Undergraduate Intern

[bones-n-bookles]

Plate LXVIII of Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton in the coyote chapter of Volume 1 part 2

Characteristics of Wolf, Coyote, & Fox snout, upper canine, & track from life 1924

Page with a drawn head in profile, silhouette, nose pad, upper canine, and forepaw track each from grey wolf, coyote, and red fox. The tracks, noses, and canines are all at a 1:1 scale.

[nickysfacts]

The conservation movement was born in loving memory of a good boy

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[lepurcinus]

Common Ernest Thompson Seton W

[godzilla-reads]

A Little Free Library Find from the one in front of my house- The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton, printed in 1927.

[roamingtigress]

― Ernest Thompson Seton, Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen A bit of a redo from this but wanted a version with the quote on the image. Click picture to view text, but if you still have trouble reading the text:

“A lion shorn of his strength, an eagle robbed of his freedom, or a dove bereft of his mate, all die, it is said, of a broken heart; and who will aver that this grim bandit could bear the threefold brunt, heart-whole?" (Maybe I'm reading into it too much but I see a resemblance towards his tragic story and Lobo's :()

[voidingintotheshout]

Ernest Thompson Seton, author of “wild animals, I have known“ is a fascinating figure. Trigger warning for child abuse, going forward. Here are some excerpts from his biography: “As a youth, he retreated to the woods of the Don River to draw and study animals as a way of avoiding his abusive father.” “On his twenty-first birthday, Seton's father presented him with an invoice for all of the expenses connected with his childhood and youth, including the fee charged by the doctor who delivered him. According to one writer, he paid the bill, but never spoke to his father again. In his autobiography, Trail of An Artist-naturalist: The Autobiography of Ernest Thompson Seton, he discusses the incident in detail, but, since he hadn't "a cent of money," he could not pay his father. He went immediately to work and used the money he made to leave the household forever.”

This book in this photo is one of the first books to really talk about animals not just being beasts, but being beings capable of emotion and thought. To escape his abusive father, he regularly escaped out into the woods and became somewhat of a naturalist./ survivalist. Eventually, he ended up with all good intentions, founding the Boy Scouts, because connecting with nature and survival skills was the only way he was able to survive his abusive childhood, and he wanted to give other kids that same opportunity. Ironic, given what the Boy Scouts tragically became.  if anybody wants it, here’s the book available to read online or download onto your various devices from project Gutenberg. I haven’t read it, but it comes highly regarded.



Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine

[disneybooklist]

King of the Grizzlies (1970)

Biography Of A Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton (1918)

[dwolfram]

"[...] he had mountains and a good river below his house; he could live among rugged, non-political people and visit, when he chose to, with a few of his famous friends who still came up to Sun Valley. He could sit in the Tram or the Alpine or the Sawtooth Club and talk with men who felt the same way he did about life, even if they were not so articulate. In this congenial atmosphere he felt he could get away from the pressures of a world gone mad, and "write truly" about life as he had in the past."

What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum? by Hunter S. Thompson

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ernest thompson seton

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34 ORCHARD ISSUE 7 HAS BURST ONTO THE SCENE!

IT’S RELEASE DAY!! I’m thrilled to announce that 34 Orchard ISSUE 7 is here! Heralding the coming of spring and the concept of the fresh start, Issue 7 has another winner from Nigeria’s Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí (Issue 1’s “Christmas Chicken,” about which we STILL get mail!) and a few other 34O alums, as well as work by others familiar and brand-new. Plunging into the visceral rip tides of lost love,…

[bones-n-bookles]

Art from of Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton the start of the desert coyote chapter of Volume 1 part 2

Desert Drink by E T Seton

Three stylized drawings together with the middle one much larger than the two side ones. The center image shows a coyote sitting with its paw on a large can labeled TOMATO. On the left side is a sketchy cactus and on the ride side is a broken clay pot.