Wild
Animals
At Home
by
Ernest Thompson Seton
Author of "Wild Animals I Have Known,"
"Two Little Savages," "Biography of a Grizzly,"
"Life Histories of Northern Animals,"
"Rolf in the Woods," "The Book of Woodcraft."
Head Chief of the
Woodcraft Indians
With over 150 Sketches and
Photographs by the Author
Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1923
Copyright, 1913, by
Ernest Thompson Seton
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
Foreword
My travels in search of light on the "Animals at Home" have taken me up and down the Rocky Mountains for nearly thirty years. In the canyons from British Columbia to Mexico, I have lighted my campfire, far beyond the bounds of law and order, at times, and yet I have found no place more rewarding than the Yellowstone Park, the great mountain haven of wild life.
Whenever travellers penetrate into remote regions where human hunters are unknown, they find the wild things half tame, little afraid of man, and inclined to stare curiously from a distance of a few paces. But very soon they learn that man is their most dangerous enemy, and fly from him as soon as he is seen. It takes a long time and much restraint to win back their confidence.