Ernest Thompson Seton was…

• An author of more than 40 books and countless articles in major magazines.
• A popular lecturer who could hold audiences spell-bound with his stories and his unique ability to replicate bird and animal sounds with his own voice.
• An artist with astounding skill in depicting wildlife, particularly birds and mammals.
• A naturalist who studied animals extensively, producing the classic work, Lives of Game Animals, essentially an eight-volume illustrated encyclopedia covering North American mammals.
• A well-known advocate of Native American rights.
• The founder of the Woodcraft League and a cofounder of the Boy Scouts of America.

Seton’s philosophy of respect for both nature and humanity  made him a  pioneer of the environmental movement, inspiring generations of leaders.

Recent Blog Entries

• Happy 162nd Birthday ETS!
  Birthdays have always been special in the Seton family with many events planned around E. T. Seton’s birthday on August 14th. See our Facebook posts throughout the day for information about these events.
• Woodcraft Accommodation in the Barton’s Backyard
  In the early 1940s, H. Allen Barton built a teepee using the instructions found in the Birch Bark Roll, the Woodcraft League of America’s handbook. The Bartons challenged their two children to sleep in the teepee for 30 consecutive days which would have each earned a Woodcraft coup, had Woodcraft still been active in the … Read more
• Happy Anniversary Woodcraft Movement 120 years!
• Woodcraft Memories
  Prompted by listening to one of the oral histories, Dr. Maida Barton Follini provided us with the following: Below is the tepee made by my father, H. Allen Barton, following the instructions in Seton’s Book of Woodcraft.  The covering was of canvas ordered from Sears & Roebuck, (not deer skins or bison skins as we … Read more
• Questions to Ponder at Year’s End
  Dee Seton Barber wrote volumes of poetry. This one we share as 2021 ends. (Originally published in Woodcraft is Lifecraft, 2nd Annual International Woodcraft Communication, 1993.) At Year’s End – The Woodcraft Way by Dee Seton Barber Have I grown in wisdom – tried to understand? Given of myself – offered all an open hand? … Read more