Stuart H. Patterson papers circa 1880-1963

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Stuart H. Patterson papers circa 1880-1963

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The collection consistsof letters, memoirs, photographs, annotated books, and other papers created andaccumulated by Stuart Hayt Patterson, documenting his relationship with ErnestThompson Seton and both men's experiences as ranch hands in New Mexico in theearly 1890s. Highlights include drafts of Patterson's memoirs, featuring achapter on Seton and the events that inspired Seton's book Wild Animals I HaveKnown (1898) and including rewrites by someone identified only as "Moore,"letters from Seton and L. V. F. Randolph, annotated copies of Seton's books,and photographs of Patterson at various points in his life.

0.96 linear feet (3boxes)

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349605

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Patterson, Stuart H.

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Stuart Hayt Patterson was born on 12 February 1871 in New York City, and grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey. He worked as a cowhand and lawman in Texas during the early 1890s. In 1893, Patterson befriended Ernest Thompson Seton while they were both working for the rancher L. V. F. Randolph, and the two remained lifelong friends. According to correspondence in the collection, the composite character of "the Dude" from Seton's autobiography, Trail of an Artist-Naturalist, was based ...

Randolph, L. V. F. (Lewis Van Syckel Fitz), 1838-1921

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Lewis Van Syckle Fitz Randolph (1838-1920) was an American businessman and financier. After his service in the Union Army in the U.S. Civil War, he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad Company becoming the director in 1875. He resigned in 1885 and established himself in the cattle business in Texas. In 1886 he joined the Tilden Trust Corporation and was named executor and trustee of the Samuel J. Tilden estate in 1903. He also was president of the Atlantic Trust Company and the New York Cons...

Seton, Julia M. (Julia Moss), 1889-

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Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946

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Ernest Thompson Seton was an American writer, naturalist and outdoorsman. From the description of Ernest Thompson Seton collection. [1931]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676777117 Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton was born Ernest Evan Thompson in northeast England, and raised in Canada; he changed his name at the age of sixteen to distance himself from his father. He apprenticed with a portrait artist, and spent a year in England studying at the Roya...