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Title: Wild Animals I Have Known

Author: Ernest Thompson Seton

Release Date: January, 2002 [Etext #3031]
Posting Date: October 31, 2009

Language: English

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WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN

By Ernest Thompson Seton

Books by Ernest Thompson Seton

Biography of a Grizzly
Lives of the Hunted
Wild Animals at Home
Wild Animal Ways

Stories in This Book

Lobo, the King of Currumpaw
Silverspot, the Story of a Crow
Raggylug, the Story of a Cottontail Rabbit
Bingo, the Story of My Dog
The Springfield Fox
The Pacing Mustang
Wully, the Story of a Yaller Dog
Redruff, the Story of the Don Valley Partridge

THESE STORIES are true. Although I have left the strict line of
historical truth in many places, the animals in this book were all real
characters. They lived the lives I have depicted, and showed the stamp
of heroism and personality more strongly by far than it has been in the
power of my pen to tell.

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general
treatment that is so common. What satisfaction would be derived from
a ten-page sketch of the habits and customs of Man? How much more
profitable it would be to devote that space to the life of some one
great man. This is the principle I have endeavored to apply to my
animals. The real personality of the individual, and his view of life
are my theme, rather than the ways of the race in general, as viewed by
a casual and hostile human eye.

This may sound inconsistent in view of my having pieced together some of
the characters, but that was made necessary by the fragmentary nature
of the records. There is, however, almost no deviation from the truth in
Lobo, Bingo, and the Mustang.

Lobo lived his wild romantic life from 1889 to 1894 in the Currumpaw
region, as the ranchmen know too well, and died, precisely as related,
on January 31, 1894.

Bingo was my dog from 1882 to 1888, in spite of interruptions, caused b