Editing Ernest Thompson Seton

{{Short description|Canadian and American writer and artist (1860–1946)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Ernest Thompson Seton
| image              = Ernest Thompson Seton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left LCCN91784656 (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Ernest Thompson Seton in 1901
| birth_name         = Ernest Evan Thompson
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1860|8|14}}
| birth_place        = [[South Shields]], County Durham, England, United Kingdom
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1946|10|23|1860|8|14}}
| death_place        = [[Seton Village, New Mexico|Seton Village]], New Mexico, United States
| other_names        = {{plainlist|
* Ernest Seton-Thompson
* Black Wolf
* Chief
}}
| known_for          = Founder of the [[Woodcraft Indians]] and founding pioneer of the [[Boy Scouts of America]]
| occupation         = Author, wildlife artist
| awards             = {{plainlist|
* [[John Burroughs Medal]] <small>(1927)</small>
* [[Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal]] <small>(1928)</small>
* [[Silver Buffalo Award]]
}}
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* [[Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson|Grace Gallatin]] <small>(m. 1896–1935)</small>
* Julia Moss Buttree
}}
| children           = {{plainlist|
* [[Anya Seton]] (daughter)
* Dee Barber Seton (daughter)
}}
| parents            = {{plainlist|
* Joseph Logan Thompson (father)
* Alice Snowdon Thompson (mother)
}}
| signature          = Signature of Ernest Evan Seaton-Thompson.png
}}

'''Ernest Thompson Seton''' (born '''Ernest Evan Thompson''';<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seton |first1=Ernest Thompson |title=Trail of an Artist-Naturalist |publisher=WindRush Publishers |isbn=978-0-9859097-6-5 |page=7|date=August 2015 }}</ref> August 14, 1860&nbsp;– October 23, 1946) was a Canadian and American author, wildlife artist, founder of the [[Woodcraft Indians]] in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America), and one of the founding pioneers of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] (BSA) in 1910.

Seton also influenced [[Robert Baden-Powell|Lord Baden-Powell]], the founder of the [[Scouting]] movement. His writings were published in the United Kingdom, Canada, the US, and the USSR; his notable books related to Scouting include ''The Birch Bark Roll'' and the ''[[Boy Scout Handbook]]''. He incorporated what he believed to be [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]] elements into the traditions of the BSA.

== Early life ==

Seton was born in [[South Shields]], County Durham, England of Scottish parents. His family emigrated to [[British North America]] in 1866. After settling in [[Lindsay, Ontario|Lindsay]], [[Canada West]] Seton spent most (after 1870) of his childhood in [[Toronto]], and the family is known to have lived at 6 Aberdeen Avenue in [[Cabbagetown, Toronto|Cabbagetown]]. As a youth, he retreated to the woods of the [[Don River (Ontario)|Don River]] to draw and study animals as a way of avoiding his abusive father.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rowan |first=Edward L. |year=2005 |title=To Do My Best: James E. West and the History of the Boy Scouts of America |publisher=Las Vegas International Scouting Museum |isbn=0-9746479-1-8}}</ref> He attended the [[OCAD|Ontario College of Art]] in 1879, studying with John Colin Forbes, then won a scholarship in art to the [[Royal Academy]] in London, England in 1880.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=Helen%20Bradfield%2C%20canadian%20collection%20%2C%20art%20gallery%20of%20ontario&Ntk=Anywhere |access-date=2020-08-02}}</ref> In the 1890s, he studied at the [[Académie Julian]] in Paris{{sfn|Bradfield|1970|p=417}} In 1893-4, he was elected an associate member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=McMann |first1=Evelyn |title=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |date=1981 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aMcMann/amcmann/1%2C2%2C11%2CB/frameset&FF=amcmann+evelyn+de+r+evelyn+de+rostaing+1913+1999&8%2C%2C10 |access-date=2022-11-21 |archive-date=October 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011123753/http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aMcMann/amcmann/1,2,11,B/frameset&FF=amcmann+evelyn+de+r+evelyn+de+rostaing+1913+1999&8,,10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On Seton's [[Coming of age|21st birthday]] his 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Atwood |first=Margaret |year=2008 |title=Payback: Debt And The Shadow Side Of Wealth |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Graeber |first=David |year=2011 |title=Debt: The First 5,000 Years |url=https://archive.org/details/debtfirst5000yea00grae |url-access=registration |publisher=Melville House Publishing |page=[https://archive.org/details/debtfirst5000yea00grae/page/92 92] |isbn=978-1-61219-129-4}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seton |first1=Ernest Thompson |title=Trail of An Artist-naturalist: The Autobiography of Ernest Thompson Seton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZPyDwAAQBAJ&q=1882 |date=July 14, 2020 |publisher=Read Books |isbn=9781528767149 |access-date=2020-08-10}}</ref>

In 1882, he joined his brother on a homestead outside [[Carberry, Manitoba]], where he began to write. In 1891, he published ''The Birds of Manitoba'' and was appointed Provincial Naturalist by the government of [[Manitoba]].<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/seton_et.shtml| title =Memorable Manitoba: Ernest Thompson Seton | publisher =Manitoba Historical Society| access-date=November 22, 2019}}</ref> He continued to publish books about Manitoba for decades to come, including ''The Life Histories of Northern Animals: An Account of the Mammals of Manitoba'' and lived in Manitoba, before moving to New York and Connecticut. In 1930, when he moved to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]].

He changed his name to Ernest Thompson Seton (after initially changing it to Ernest Seton-Thompson), believing that [[Seton (surname)|Seton]] had been an important family name. He became successful as a writer, artist, and naturalist, and moved to [[New York City]] to further his career. Seton later lived at Wyndygoul,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.thesetonfamily.com:8080/directory/ETSETONhouses.htm |title=The Houses |publisher=www2.thesetonfamily.com |access-date=2009-12-18
}}</ref> an estate that he built in [[Cos Cob, Connecticut|Cos Cob]], a section of [[Greenwich, Connecticut|Greenwich]], [[Connecticut]]. After experiencing vandalism by the local youth, Seton invited them to his estate for a weekend where he told them what he claimed were stories of the [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]] and of nature.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.etsetoninstitute.org/WOODCRFT.HTM | title =Woodcraft League Histories | publisher =Ernest Thompson Seton Institute | access-date =July 11, 2006 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060701185949/http://etsetoninstitute.org/WOODCRFT.HTM | archive-date=July 1, 2006 | df =mdy-all }}</ref>  Seton was an early and influential member of the [[Camp Fire Club|Camp-Fire Club of America]], hosting several of the club's earliest official events at his Wyndygoul estate.<ref>{{cite news |title=CAMP FIRE CLUB IN QUEER CONTESTS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/06/12/archives/camp-fire-club-in-queer-contests-cold-rain-cant-keep-the-hardy.html |work=New York Times |date=June 12, 1910 |access-date=27 February 2023}}</ref> 

He formed the [[Woodcraft Indians]] in 1902 and invited the local youth to join. Despite the name, the group was made up of non-[[Native Americans in the United States|native]] boys and girls. The stories became a series of articles written for the ''[[Ladies Home Journal]]'', and were eventually collected in ''The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians'' in 1906. Shortly after, the Woodcraft Indians evolved into the Woodcraft Rangers, which was established as a non-profit organization for youth programming in 1922.

Since 1922, Woodcraft Rangers has served Los Angeles youth with Seton's model of character building, which encompasses service, truth, fortitude, and beauty.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.woodcraftrangers.org |title=woodcraftrangers.org Home |website=www.woodcraftrangers.org |access-date=2018-11-05}}</ref> Since then, Woodcraft Rangers youth have been received in a safe environment to encourage the discovery of their own talents. Today the Woodcraft Rangers organization serves over 15,000 youth in the Los Angeles county by helping them find pathways to purposeful lives. They offer expanded learning opportunities to youth from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Youth participants are encouraged to discover their natural talents and are embraced daily with the belief that all children are innately good.

== Scouting ==

[[File:Scouting pioneers.jpg|thumb|Ernest Thompson Seton with [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Baden-Powell]] ''(seated)'' and [[Daniel Carter Beard|Daniel Beard]] ''(right)'']]

Seton met [[Scouting]]'s founder, [[Robert Baden-Powell|Lord Baden-Powell]], in 1906. Baden-Powell had read Seton's book ''The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians'' and was greatly intrigued by it. The pair met and shared ideas. Baden-Powell went on to found the Scouting movement worldwide and Seton became the president of the committee that founded the [[Boy Scouts of America]] (BSA) and was its first (and only) Chief Scout. Seton's ''[[Woodcraft Indians]]'' (a youth organization) combined with the early attempts at Scouting from the [[YMCA]] and other organizations and with [[Daniel Carter Beard]]'s [[Sons of Daniel Boone]], to form the BSA.<ref name="Scott">{{cite journal|last=Scott| first=David C.| year=2006| title=The Origins of BSA's 1910 Handbook| journal=International Scouting Collectors Association Journal (ISCA Journal) | volume=6| issue=4| pages=6–13}}</ref> The work of Seton and Beard is in large part the basis of the [[Traditional Scouting]] movement.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/index.htm | title =Traditional Scouting | publisher = American Traditional Scouting| access-date =July 18, 2007 }}</ref>

Seton served as Chief Scout of the BSA from 1910 to 1915 and incorporated what he believed to be [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]] elements into the traditions of the BSA. He had significant personality and philosophical clashes with Beard and [[James E. West (Scouting)|James E. West]].

In addition to disputes about the content of Seton's contributions to the Boy Scout Handbook, conflicts also arose about the [[Women's suffrage in the United States|suffragist]] activities of his wife, [[Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson]], and his British citizenship. The citizenship issue arose partly because of his high position within the BSA and the federal charter West was attempting to obtain for the BSA requiring its board members to be United States citizens. Seton drafted his written resignation on January 29, 1915, but did not send it to the BSA until May.<ref name="ISCAjournal">{{cite journal| last=Scott| first=David C.| title=Ernest Thompson Seton and BSA&nbsp;— The Partnership Collapse of 1915| journal=International Scouting Collectors Association| volume=6| issue=2|date=June 2006| pages=10–16}}</ref> The position of Chief Scout was eliminated and the position "Chief Scout Executive" was taken on by James West. In 1931, Seton became a United States citizen.

== Personal life ==

[[British people|British]] by birth, Seton was not naturalized as [[Canadians|Canadian]] (as status did not legally exist until 1947; he thus remained a British subject) and became an [[Americans|American]] in 1931. He was married twice. His first marriage was to [[Grace Gallatin Seton|Grace Gallatin]] in 1896. Their only daughter, Ann (1904–1990), later known as [[Anya Seton]], became a best-selling author of historical and biographical novels. According to Ann's introduction to the novel ''[[Green Darkness]]'', Grace was a practicing [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophist]].

Ernest and Grace divorced in 1935, and Ernest soon married Julia Moss Buttree. Julia wrote works by herself and with Ernest. They did not have any biological children, but in the 1930s they sought to adopt Moss Buttree's niece, Leila Moss, who lived with them for years in New Mexico.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moss Knox |first1=Leila |title=The Storyteller: My Years with Ernest Thompson Seton |date=2015 |publisher=Langdon Street Press |isbn=9781935204534 }}</ref> In 1938, they adopted an infant daughter, Beulah (Dee) Seton (later Dee Seton Barber). Dee Seton Barber, a talented embroiderer of articles for synagogues such as Torah mantles, died in 2006.<ref>[https://www.blevinscares.com/obituaries/Dee-Barber-113596/#!/Obituary Dee Barber Obituary]</ref>

Seton called his father, Joseph Logan Thompson, "the most selfish man I ever knew, or heard of, in history or in fiction." He cut off ties completely after being made to pay off an itemized list of all expenses he had cost his father, up to and including the doctor's fee for his delivery, a total of $537.50.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/07/08/squaring-accounts/ |title=Squaring Accounts |date=July 8, 2014}}</ref>

Seton's parents lived out their lives in Toronto, as did brother John Enoch Thompson (abt. 1846–1932).

Two brothers, Joseph Logan Thompson (1849–1922) and Charles Seton Thompson (1851–1925), moved to British Columbia. Besides Seton, George Seton Thompson (1854–1944) moved to Illinois and died there.

==Writing and later life==
[[File:Ernest thompson seton.jpg|thumb|upright|Seton early in his writing career]]

Seton was an early pioneer of the modern school of [[Fiction#Formats|animal fiction]] writing, his most popular work being ''[[Wild Animals I Have Known]]'' (1898), which contains the story of his killing of the wolf [[Lobo (The King of Currumpaw)|Lobo]]. Four stories from this collection would be republished as ''Lobo, Rag, and Vixen'' (1900). He later became involved in a literary debate known as the [[nature fakers controversy]], after [[John Burroughs]] published an article in 1903 in the [[The Atlantic|''Atlantic Monthly'']] attacking writers of sentimental animal stories.  The controversy lasted for four years and included important American environmental and political figures of the day, including President [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>Carson, Gerald. February 1971. "[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1971/2/1971_2_60.shtml T.R. and the 'nature fakers']" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120192537/http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1971/2/1971_2_60.shtml |date=November 20, 2008 }}. ''American Heritage Magazine''. Volume 22, Issue 2.</ref>

For his work, ''Lives of Game Animals Volume 4'', Seton was awarded the [[Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] in 1928.<ref name=Elliot>{{cite web|title=Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_elliot |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=February 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229194403/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_elliot |archive-date=December 29, 2010 |df=mdy }}</ref> In 1931, he became a [[United States citizen]]. Seton was associated with the Santa Fe arts and literary community during the mid-1930s and early 1940s, which was a group of artists and authors, including author and artist [[Alfred Morang]], sculptor and potter [[Clem Hull]], painter [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], painter Randall Davey, painter [[Raymond Jonson]], leader of the Transcendental Painters Group and artist Eliseo Rodriguez.<ref>"[http://clemhull.com/Clement%20Marot%20Hull.html 1938-1942 Santa Fe]". Retrieved on December 29, 2008.</ref> He was made a member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]].<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web |title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |access-date=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archive-date=May 26, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref>

In 1933, Seton purchased {{Convert|100|acre|ha}} in [[Santa Fe County, New Mexico|Santa Fe County]], New Mexico, United States. Seton ran training camps for youth leaders and had a small publisher named Seton Village Press that closed in 1943 due to [[World War II]]. The tract eventually grew to {{Convert|2500|acre|ha}}. [[Seton Village]] was established as an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]].

Seton designed and built his castle as a 32-room, {{Convert|6900|sqft|m2|adj=on}} multi-level building with a flat-roof and rough hewn stone wall exterior. The interior had oak floors and plaster walls with the ceilings supported by log rafters. The castle was built on a hill at an elevation of {{Convert|7,000|ft|m|abbr=on}}. It is designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] and a New Mexico State Cultural Property. The castle burned down while being restored in 2005. The [[Academy for the Love of Learning]], which owns the property, has decided to preserve the castle ruins as a "contemplative garden".<ref>{{cite news |author=Tom Sharpe |date=October 10, 2010 |title=Seton Castle: An academy rises from the ruins |url=http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Academy_to_resurrect_mission_at_Seton_site |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202034039/http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Academy_to_resurrect_mission_at_Seton_site |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 2, 2013 |newspaper=The Santa Fe New Mexican |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref>

==Death==
He died in [[Seton Village]], [[New Mexico]], at the age of 86. Seton was cremated in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]], New Mexico. In 1960, in honor of his 100th birthday and the 350th anniversary of Santa Fe, his daughter, Dee and his grandson, Seton Cottier (son of Anya), scattered the ashes over Seton Village from an [[airplane]].<ref>Pamela Cottier Forcey, daughter of Anya. The Chief: Ernest Thompson Seton and the Changing West, H. Allen Anderson</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:River ducks Seton.jpg|thumb|upright|The diagrams of ducks inspired [[Roger Tory Peterson]]'s idea for a field guide.]]
The [[Philmont Scout Ranch]] houses the [[Philmont Scout Ranch#National Scouting Museum|Seton Memorial Library and Museum]]. Seton Castle in Santa Fe, built by Seton as his last residence, housed many of his other items. Seton Castle burned down in 2005 during an attempt at restoration, but all the artwork, manuscripts, books, etc., had been removed to storage before renovation was to have begun.<ref>{{cite web | last =Grimm | first = Julie Ann| year = 2005 | url =http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/35086.html | title =Seton Castle destroyed by fire | publisher = Santa Fe New Mexican.com| access-date =July 18, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015159/http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/35086.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = September 30, 2007}}</ref>

The [[Academy for the Love of Learning]], an educational organization in Santa Fe, acquired Seton Castle and its contents in 2003. The new Academy Center that opened in 2011 includes a gallery and archives featuring artwork and other materials as part of its Seton Legacy Project. The Seton Legacy Project organized a major exhibition on Seton opening at the [[New Mexico History Museum]] on May 23, 2010, the catalog published as ''Ernest Thompson Seton: The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist'' by David L. Witt.

[[Roger Tory Peterson]] drew inspiration for his field guide from the simple diagram of ducks that Seton included in ''Two Little Savages''.<ref>{{cite book| page=5 |title=Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography|author=Carson, Douglas|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2012}}</ref>

Seton is honoured by the [[Ernest Thompson Seton Scout Reservation]] in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], and with the [[E.T. Seton Park]] in [[Toronto, Ontario]]. Obtained in the early 1960s as the site of the future [[Metro Toronto Zoo]], the land was later used to establish parkland and home to the [[Ontario Science Centre]]. A plaque is found on the front wall of 6 Aberdeen Avenue in Toronto, where Seton had lived as a child.{{clearleft}}

=== In pop culture ===

==== In television ====
''[[Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac]]'' ({{Langx|ja|シートン動物記　くまの子ジャッキー|translit=}}, ''Seton Doubutsuki: Kuma no Ko Jacky'') was a 26-episode [[anime]] television series based on Seton's novel of the same name, and was first broadcast in 1977.

In 1979, a 26-episode anime series based on Seton's 1922 book ''[[Bannertail|Bannertail: The Story of a Gray Squirrel]]'' was produced in [[Japan]] by [[Nippon Animation]], called [[Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel (TV series)|''Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel'']] ({{Langx|ja|シートン動物記 りすのバナー|translit=|label=none}}, ''Shīton Dōbutsuki Risu no Banā'').

In 1989–1990, [[Eiken (studio)|Eiken]] released ''Seton Dōbutsuki'' ({{Langx|ja|シートン動物記|translit=|label=none}}, '<nowiki/>''Seton Animal Chronicles''<nowiki/>'), a 45-episode anime TV series adapted from the [[manga]] ''[[Seton's Wild Animals]]'' ({{Langx|ja|シートン動物記|translit=|label=none}}), depicting the different literary works of Seton, including his 1898 ''[[Wild Animals I Have Known]]''. "Lobo, the King of Currumpaw" (episodes 17 and 18) was a notable episode of the show which many viewers later learned of when the storyline was plotted into a popular 2009 TV documentary entitled ''[[The Wolf That Changed America]]''. The cartoon was dubbed in German and Arabic and saw an emerging popularity among Arabs in the early 1990s as ''Mokhles Sadik ul Hayawaan'' ({{Langx|ar|مخلص صديق الحيوان}}, '''Mokhles, Animals' Friend''<nowiki/>').

"Chink, the Development of a Pup" was adapted into a cartoon in Russian in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=3442 | title=Russian animation in letters and figures &#124; Films &#124; "CHINK" }}</ref>

In October 2015, the Comedy Central show ''[[Drunk History]]'' gave a short, drunk history lesson by Mike Still (season 3, episode 10, second act) in which Seton is portrayed by [[Colin Hanks]]. It mostly concentrates on the [[Lobo the King of Currumpaw|story of Lobo]], but also mentions the roots of the Boy Scouts and helping out troubled teens.<ref>{{cite web|title=This Drunk History makes you feel drunk even if you're not|url=https://www.avclub.com/this-drunk-history-makes-you-feel-drunk-even-if-you-re-1798185489|website=A.V. Club|date=November 4, 2015 }}</ref>

====In literature and manga====
The five-volume [[manga]] ''[[Seton's Wild Animals]]'' ({{Langx|ja|シートン動物記|translit=|label=none}}) by [[Sanpei Shirato]], published between 1961 and 1965, portrayed the various literary works of Seton. Kenji Uchiyama translated Seton's work for the manga from English into Japanese.

In 1988, [[Yury Iosifovich Koval]] published a short novel called ''Шамайка'' (''Shamayka''), a retelling of ''The Slum Cat''.

In a 1993 issue of the Japanese manga ''[[Diamond is Unbreakable]]'', the character [[Jotaro Kujo]] references Seton's quote "there is no animal that cannot be tracked".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Araki|first1=Hirohiko|title=Diamond is Unbreakable|date=4 November 1993|publisher=Weekly Shonen Jump|edition=35|location=Japan|page=Chapter 327, Page 18|ref=Jotaro Kujo: American turn-of-the-century naturalist E. T. Seton once said, "there is no animal that cannot be tracked."}}</ref>

Several of Seton's works are written from the perspective of a predator and were an influence upon [[Robert T. Bakker]]'s ''[[Raptor Red]]'' (1995).<ref name="usatoday-jones">{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Steve|date=August 17, 1995|title=Robert Bakker digs the dinosaurs; scientist has prehistoric tales to tell.|page=D1|newspaper=[[USA Today]]}}</ref>

From 2004–2006, [[manga artist]] [[Jiro Taniguchi]] and scenarist Yoshiharu Imaizumi published ''Shīton'' ({{Langx|ja|シートン|translit=}}), a four-volume manga romanticizing the life of Seton. These manga were not translated into English, but appeared in French, Italian and Spanish. The French titles are:
# ''Lobo, le Roi des Loups'' ('Lobo, King of Wolves')
# ''Le jeune garçon et le lynx'' ('The Young boy and the Lynx')
# ''Sandhill Stag'' ('Sandhill Stag')
# ''Monarch, l'ours du mont Tallac'' (Monarch, Mount Tallac Bear)

Seton's appearance inspired the design of the character Shiton Anehata, a scholar and [[Zoophilia|zoophile]] who is one of the [[Abashiri Prison|Abashiri]] convicts in the manga ''[[Golden Kamuy|Golden Kamui]]''.

Seton is also mentioned in [[Philip Roth]]'s 2010 novel, ''[[Nemesis (Roth novel)|Nemesis]]'', where he is credited for having introduced [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indian lore]] to the American camping movement.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=le8l9dnT_bwC&q=Seton |title=Nemesis |last=Roth |first=Phillip |date=October 4, 2011 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=9780307475008 |page=146 |access-date=October 27, 2024}}</ref>

==Works==
[[File:Wild Animals Tannerey.jpg|thumb|Drawing from ''[[Wild Animals I Have Known]]'', Scribner's (1898)]]
[[File:Seton Two Little Savages Song-birds.jpg|thumb|Drawing from ''Two Little Savages'', Doubleday (1903)]]
[[File:Seton Book Woodcraft knots.jpg|thumb|Drawing from ''The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore'', Doubleday (1912)]]
[[File:Seton Sign Talk p43.jpg|thumb|Page from ''Sign Talk of the Indians'', Doubleday (1918)]]
* ''Mammals of Manitoba'' (1886)
* ''Birds of Manitoba, Foster'' (1891)
* ''How to Catch Wolves'' (1894)
* ''Studies in the Art Anatomy of Animals'' (1896)
* ''[[Wild Animals I Have Known]]'' (1898)
**"[[Lobo the King of Currumpaw]]"
* ''The Trail of the Sandhill Stag'' (1899)
* ''Lobo, Rag, & Vixen'' (1900)
* ''The Wild Animal Play for Children'' (musical) (1900)
* ''The Biography of a Grizzly'' (1900)
* ''Tito: The Story of the Coyote That Learned How'' (1900)<ref>[http://shortstories.ucgreat.com/read/004/186.htm ''Tito: The Story of the Coyote That Learned How'']</ref>
* ''Bird Portraits'' (1901)
* ''Lives of the Hunted'' (1901)
* ''Twelve Pictures of Wild Animals'' (1901)
* ''Krag and Johnny Bear'' (1902)
* ''How to Play Indian'' (1903)
* ''Two Little Savages'' (1903)
* ''How to Make a Real Indian Teepee'' (1903)
* ''How Boys Can Form a Band of Indians'' (1903)
* ''The Red Book'' (1904)
* ''Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac'' (1904)
* ''Woodmyth & Fable'' (1905)
* ''Animal Heroes'' (1905)
* ''The Birchbark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians'' (1906)
* ''The Natural History of the Ten Commandments'' (1907)
* ''Fauna of Manitoba, British Assoc. Handbook'' (1909)
* ''Biography of a Silver Fox'' (1909)
* ''Life-Histories of Northern Animals'' (two volumes) (1909)
* ''[[Boy Scout Handbook|Boy Scouts of America: Official Handbook]]'', with General Sir [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Baden-Powell]] (1910)
* ''The Forester's Manual'' (1910)
* ''The Arctic Prairies'' (1911)
* ''Rolf in the Woods'' (1911)
* ''{{ill|The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore|qid=Q51449432}}'' (1912)
* ''The Red Lodge'' (1912)
* ''Wild Animals at Home'' (1913)
* ''The Slum Cat'' (1915)
* ''Legend of the White Reindeer'' (1915)
* ''The Manual of the Woodcraft Indians'' (1915)
* ''Wild Animal Ways'' (1916)<ref>[[iarchive:wildanimalways00setoiala/page/n6|''Wild Animal Ways'']]</ref>
* ''Woodcraft Manual for Girls'' (1916)
* ''The Preacher of Cedar Mountain'' (1917)
* ''Woodcraft Manual for Boys; the Sixteenth Birch Bark Roll'' (1917)
* ''The Woodcraft Manual for Boys; the Seventeenth Birch Bark Roll'' (1918)
* ''The Woodcraft Manual for Girls; the Eighteenth Birch Bark Roll'' (1918)
* ''Sign Talk of the Indians'' (1918)
* ''The Laws and Honors of the Little Lodge of Woodcraft'' (1919)
* ''The Brownie Wigwam: The Rules of the Brownies'' (1921)
* ''The Buffalo Wind'' (1921)
* ''Woodland Tales'' (1921)
* ''The Book of Woodcraft'' (1921)
* ''{{ill|The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore|qid=Q51449435}}'' (1922)
* ''[[Bannertail|Bannertail: The Story of a Gray Squirrel]]'' (1922)
* ''Manual of the Brownies'', 6th edition (1922)
* ''The Ten Commandments in the Animal World'' (1923)
* ''Animals'' (1926)
* ''Animals Worth Knowing'' (1928)
* ''Lives of Game Animals'' (four volumes) (1925–1928)
* ''Blazes on the Trail'' (1928)
* ''Krag, the Kootenay Ram and Other Stories'' (1929)
* ''Billy the Dog That Made Good'' (1930)
* ''Cute Coyote and Other Stories'' (1930)
* ''Lobo, Bingo, The Pacing Mustang'' (1930)
* ''Famous Animal Stories'' (1932)
* ''Animals Worth Knowing'' (1934)
* ''Johnny Bear, Lobo and Other Stories'' (1935)
* ''The Gospel of the Redman'', with Julia M. Seton<ref>{{Cite web|title= (1936)|url= http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/slideshows/view.aspx?SlideShowID=20&SlideDetailID=206|language=en-US|access-date=2023-06-06}}</ref>
* ''Biography of An Arctic Fox'' (1937)
* ''Great Historic Animals'' (1937)
* ''Mainly about Wolves'' (1937)
* ''Pictographs of the Old Southwest'' (1937)
* ''Buffalo Wind'' (1938)
* ''Trail and Camp-Fire Stories'' (1940)
* ''Trail of an Artist-Naturalist: The Autobiography of Ernest Thompson Seton'' (1940)
* ''Santanna, the Hero Dog of France'' (1945)
* ''The Best of Ernest Thompson Seton'' (1949)
* ''Ernest Thompson Seton's America'' (1954)
* ''Animal Tracks and Hunter Signs'' (1958)
* ''The Worlds of Ernest Thompson Seton'' (1976)

==Archives==
There is an Ernest Thompson Seton fonds at Library and Archives Canada. It is archival reference number R7616 and former archival reference number MG29-D108. The fonds consists of 6.2 metres of textual records, 1,220 photographs, 118 drawings, and other media.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ernest Thompson Seton fonds description at Library and Archives Canada| date=November 25, 2016 |url=https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=101709&lang=eng|access-date=March 17, 2022}}</ref>

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==See also==
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* [[Kibbo Kift]]
* [[Lobo the King of Currumpaw]]
* [[Philmont Scout Ranch]]
* [[Philmont Scout Ranch#Roving Outdoor Conservation School|Roving Outdoor Conservation School]] (ROCS)
* [[Scouting memorials]]
* ''[[Seton's Wild Animals]]'', a Japanese [[manga]] adaptation of some of Seton's works by [[Sanpei Shirato]]

==References==
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*[http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/seton/birch/index.htm ''The Birch Bark Roll'']

==Further reading==
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* {{cite book |last=Anderson |first=Hugh Allen |title=The Chief: Ernest Thompson Seton and the Changing West |date=June 2, 2000 |publisher=TAMU Press |isbn=0-89096-982-5}}
* {{cite book |last=Morris |first=Brian |title=Ernest Thompson Seton, Founder of the Woodcraft Movement 1860-1946 |year=2008 |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |isbn=978-0-7734-5474-3}}
* {{cite book |last=Witt |first=David |title=Ernest Thompson Seton, The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist |year=2010 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=978-1-4236-0391-7}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.ernestthompsonseton.com/ Comprehensive biographical information on Ernest Thompson Seton]
* [https://etsetoninstitute.org/ Ernest Thompson Seton Institute]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050915063011/http://etsetoninstitute.org/PHILMONT.HTM Ernest Thompson Seton's scientific collections at Philmont]
* [http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=350&ResourceType=District Seton Village site at the NPS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221095915/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=350&ResourceType=District |date=December 21, 2007 }}
* [http://www.aloveoflearning.org/ On-line Seton art exhibition and collections]
* [http://www.inquiry.net/traditional/seton/birch/index.htm The Birchbark Roll] (full text)
* {{Gutenberg author |id=535| name=Ernest Thompson Seton}}
* {{FadedPage|id=Seton, Ernest Thompson|name=Ernest Thompson Seton|author=yes}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ernest Thompson Seton}}
* {{Librivox author |id=634}}
* [http://upasika.com/ernestthompsonseton.html Ernest Thompson Seton in Upasika]
* [http://www.aloveoflearning.org/ Academy for the Love of Learning]
* [http://www.woodcraftrangers.org/ Woodcraft Rangers]
* [http://www.thesetoncentre.ca The Seton Centre]
* [http://www.setonlegacyproject.blogspot.com/ Seton Legacy Project at Academy for the Love of Learning]
* [http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/authors/Ernest-Thompson-Seton.aspx Ernest Thompson Seton: Life and Work at World Wisdom]
* [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=101709&lang=eng Ernest Thompson Seton fonds (R7616)] at [[Library and Archives Canada]]

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