The difficult art of tracking – Part 2

Three mounted Comanche Indian warriors, photographed 1892.
Three mounted Comanche Indian warriors, photographed 1892.

This is the second installment in a series about tracking taken from “Mountain Scouting – A Hand-Book for Officers and Soldiers on the Frontiers” by Edward S. Farrow, 1881. If you missed the first, please follow along here. Farrow concentrates on how to differentiate tracks and how to determine the age of a trail in this segment.

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