Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) was an English-born naturalist, artist and writer who grew up in Canada and later settled in the United States. His Wild Animals I Have Known, published in 1898, founded the modern realistic animal story, and he illustrated his many books himself. Seton founded the Woodcraft Indians, a youth movement that became one of the sources of the Boy Scouts of America, whose first chief scout he was. He also wrote large studies of North American mammals and spent his last years in New Mexico.