MAJOR SETON EXHIBITION IN SANTA FE OPENS MAY 23

Opening May 23 at the New Mexico History Museum, Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton dedicates itself to telling the often overlooked story of the conservationist, author, artist, lecturer and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Ernest Thompson Seton’s impact on America’s conservation movement was immeasurable but, today is largely forgotten. Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton sets out to change that.

The exhibition will run  through May 8, 2011 in the museum’s second-floor Albert and Ethel Herzstein Changing Exhibitions Gallery. It's accompanied by a catalog, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2010), with a foreword written by Sir David Attenborough.

Curated by New Mexico art historian David L. Witt, director of the Seton Legacy Project for the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, Wild at Heart marks the first major exhibition about Seton. Most of the art and artifacts – more than 30 original paintings and drawings by Seton, books, personal memorabilia, and photographs – have been seldom if ever seen. Most of the items on loan to the exhibit come from the Academy for the Love of Learning and from the Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial Library at the Philmont Ranch in Cimarron, N.M.

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Digitized Works by Seton

We are experimenting with something entirely new.  The Google Books and Microsoft Live Books projects have been digitizing (scanning to Adobe PDF or similar formats) millions of books from prominent libraries.  They are being made available under various arrangements and, generally, those in the public domain are available for download.  We have accumulated the following volumes in Adobe PDF format and will be adding in more in the days and weeks to come.

One word of caution:  reading a digitized book is not really the same as reading a book.  We encourage you to find copies of these books for yourself.  Our bookstore  page has links to Amazon.com for new books and ABEBooks.com and Alibris.com for used and antiquarian volumes.  Get a copy for yourself if you can. 

One of Seton's books, Wild Animals I Have Known, has been in print continuously for 110 years - since 1898!

All of these books are in Adobe PDF format.  Most users will already have Adobe Reader installed on thier computer.  If not, click here to go to the Adobe Reader download page.