The Arctic Prairies

Record summary

Ernest Thompson Seton’s The Arctic Prairies combines travel observations, natural history, Indigenous information and stories encountered during a 1907 journey toward Hudson Bay, published in 1911. It is relevant to maritime and catastrophe folklore because it records how landscape, animals, weather and local narrative traditions were interpreted by an outsider moving through northern environments. The work may preserve useful references to legends, but it also reflects literary travel writing and Seton’s own interests in wildlife and frontier identity. It should not be mined as an unmediated Indigenous source.