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Seton Ernest

Ernest Thompson Seton, Boy Scouts early influential leader, signature & illustration of wolf paw print


Cream paper slip signed by wildlife author and artist Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) as "Ernest Thompson Seton" at center. Seton has also drawn a wolf paw print below his last name. Mounted on black paper backing and with a few traces of glue, otherwise near fine. Paper slip measures 4.375" x 2.125."


Seton may have been inspired to draw a wolf print after the publication of one of his most famous short story collections, Wild Animals I Have Known (1898). The first story of this collection related the adventures of a misunderstood wolf named Lobo the King of Currumpaw.


Ernest Thompson Seton's fiction and illustrations celebrated nature, animals, and American Indian traditions, and were extremely popular among readers. Some argued, however, that Seton's stories humanized wild animals to too great an extent, providing an overly sanitized and sentimentalized view of nature. Opponents, like naturalist John Burroughs, criticized these portrayals as "Sham Natural History", and accused Seton and others of "nature faking". In response, Seton modified the title of his well-known short story collection to Wild Animals Only I Have Known


Seton incorporated his interest in naturalism and indigenous lifeways into all-boys' organizations developed during the early 20th century Scouting Movement. He headed the Boy Scouts of America and served as the organization's Chief Scout after 1910, and founded his own group called the Woodcraft Indians in 1902.


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