Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), born in South Shields in England, arrived in Canada as a child and grew up on a farm in Ontario and then in Toronto, where he fled to the nearby woods from an authoritarian father. Trained in drawing in Toronto, London and Paris, he became official naturalist of Manitoba and illustrated his own writings. In 1902 he founded the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement inspired by Native American traditions, and from 1910 to 1915 was the first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America. A defender of Indigenous cultures, he settled near Santa Fe, where he died.

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• Short storiesWild Animals I Have KnownErnest Thompson Seton · 1898Literature