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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
by lengthy visits