Rolf in the Woods

By Ernest Thompson Seton

1911

First Published

4.25

Average Rating

344

Number of Pages

10H30M

Audio Length

Over Two Hundred Drawings. Partial The Wigwam Under the Rock; Rolf Kittering and the Solder Uncle; Rolf Catches a Coon and Finds a Friend; Skookum Accepts Rolf at Last; Memory's Harp and the Indian Drum; The Law of Property Among our Four-footed Kin; Where the Bow is Better Than the Gun; The Thunder Storm and The Fire Sticks; Hunting the Woodchucks; The Fight With the Demon of the Deep; Bound for the North Woods; Life With the Dutch Settler; Canoeing on the Upper Hudson; Animal Life Along the River; The Trapper's Cabin; Rolf's First Deer; The Line of Traps; The Beaver Pond; The Porcupine; The Otter Slide; Back to the Cabin; Sick Dog Skookum; Alone in the Wilderness; Snowshoes; Catching a Fox; The Antler-bound Bucks; A Song of Praise The Birch-bark Vessels; Snaring Rabbits; The Pekan or Fisher; The Silver Fox; The Rarest of Pets; The Enemy's Fort; Skookum's Panther; Sunday in the Woods; The Lost Bundle of Furs; Nursing Hoag; Hoag's Home-coming; Rolf's Lesson in Trailing; Rolf Gets Lost; Marketing the Fur; Traveling to the Great City; Albany; The Rescue of Bill; The Sick Ox; Rolf and Skookum at Albany; Back to Indian Lake; Van Cortlandt's Drugs; Van Courtland's Adventure; The Charm Song; Dinner at the Governor's; The Grebes and the Singing Mouse; A Lesson in Stalking; Rolf Meets a Canuck; War; Ogensburg; Saving the Dispatches Sackett's Harbour; Scouting Across Country; Van Trumper's Again; Scouting in Canada The Duel; Rumors and Papers; McGlassins Exploit; The Bloody Sarnac; The Battle of Plattsburg; Scouting for Macomb; Rolf Unmasks the Ambush; The Hospital, the Prisoners, and Home; The New Era of Prosperity; Quonab Goes Home.

Avg Rating

4.25

Number of Ratings

198

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Author

Ernest Thompson Seton

Author · 23 books

Ernest Thompson Seton was a Scots-Canadian (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Seton also heavily influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA. He was born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham (now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear), England of Scottish parents and his family emigrated to Canada in 1866. As a youth, he retreated to the woods to draw and study animals as a way of avoiding his abusive father. He won a scholarship in art to the Royal Academy in London, England. He later rejected his father and changed his name to Ernest Thompson Seton. He believed that Seton had been an important name in his paternal line. He developed a fascination with wolves while working as a naturalist for Manitoba. He became successful as a writer, artist and naturalist, and moved to New York City to further his career. Seton later lived at Wyndygoul, an estate that he built in Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich, Connecticut. After experiencing vandalism by the local youth, Seton invited them to his estate for a weekend where he told stories of the American Indians and of nature. He formed the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 and invited the local youth to join. The stories became a series of articles written for the Ladies Home Journal and were eventually collected in the The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians in 1906. He was married twice. The first marriage was to Grace Gallatin in 1896. Their only daughter, Ann, was born in 1904 and died in 1990. Ann, who later changed her first name, became a best-selling author of historical and biographical novels as Anya Seton. According to her introduction to the novel Green Darkness, both of her parents were practicing Theosophists. Ernest and Grace divorced in 1935, and Ernest soon married Julia M. Buttree. Julia would write works by herself and with Ernest. They did not have any children, but did adopt an infant daughter, Beulah (Dee) Seton (later Dee Seton Barber), in 1938. Dee Seton Barber died in 2006.