Frontier Escape and Evasion Tactics (Part 3)

Escape and evasion meant survival and it isn’t just a modern skill. It was a historical tactic along the American frontier where tracking was a skill utilized daily.

This video centers around deceiving the tracker and the methods that were used to do that. Some very unique American tactics were born out of this time period.

Major Timestamps
00:00 : Intro
00:20: What is track deception?
01:35: Staying off the beaten path
03:12 : Avoiding Track Traps
04:00 : Sharing the same tracks
04:48 : Animal Mimicry

Sources cited:
Tracks and Trailcraft by Ellsworth Jaeger, 1948

The History of the American Indians by James Adair, 1775

Sketches of the Life and Indian Adventures of Captain Samuel Brady, unknown author, 1891

Autobiography of a Revolutionary War Soldier by John Roberts,1859
Westward into Kentucky, edited by Chester Young, 1981

Loudon’s Indian Narratives by Archibald Loudon, 1888 (reprint)

Travels in the Interior of North America 1751 – 1762 by Jean-Bernard Bossu, ed 1962

Bear Paw Moccasins photo by Musee Du Quai Branley-Jacques Chirac

Music by Deke Wiggins.

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