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By: Meghan Saar 03/01/2008
Ernest Thompson Seton
The author and naturalist who helped organize the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 and wrote the first American Scout manual, Ernest Thompson Seton, is honored by the Seton Memorial Library near Cimarron, New Mexico.
When Waite Phillips donated this land to the Boy Scout cause inspired by Seton’s Woodcrafts Indian youth group, Phillips had three provisions:?his horse Gus be allowed to stay there, that his family be allowed to visit and that it remain a working cattle ranch.
Seton wrote more than 40 major books about natural history, with his best known being Wild Animals I Have Known. At the memorial library, you’ll see his collection of artwork, animal skins and Indian artifacts.
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Youth lucky enough to attend Philmont Scout Ranch should check out Indian Writings Camp, where you can see archaeological sites and petroglyphs preserving Apache and Ute tribal history.
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