written down by the animal itself, in the oldest of all writing, and recording a chapter when the creature was not escaping, but pursuing the placid even tenor of its normal forest life.
In this review of my observations, I have given track diagrams of many beasts, reptiles, and birds, all of them drawn from life and to scale, and all observed in America.
This is a mere start in trailing; I hope it may result in giving others as much joy as it has given me.
Ernest Thompson Seton
Seton Village
Santa Fe, New Mexico
August 14, 1946
N.B. The drawings and notes are taken wholly from the author’s own lifelong experiences in the wilds; but the assembling of them into a readable book after Mr. Seton’s death was done by his wife, Julia M. Seton who lived with him through many of the adventures that led to this writing.
Those drawings which the author made life size and marked correspondingly
Since Ernest Thompson Seton was an American writer, no attempt has been made to anglicize the spelling or vocabulary.
Contents
2.Tracking, Trailing, or Spooring
6.Trailing as the Hunter Does It
9.Marsh and Woodland Creatures
10.Track History of Mink and Rabbit
11.Record of a Woodland Tragedy
15.The Skunk and the Unwise Bobcat
21.Bear Trees and Other Animal Signs
Illustrations
7.Fox feet
8.Various tracks of domestic Pig
9.Domestic Sheep and Pig tracks compared
10.Otter tracks
11.Shod Horse walking
12.Horse galloping and walking
13.Black-track prints of Texan Lynx and Red Fox
14.Black-tracks of Fox Squirrel and Meadow Mouse
15.Birds on the ranch
16.Tracks of domestic Cattle walking
17.Dog and Wolf encounter at Buffalo skull
18.Jack Rabbit and Cottontail tracks
19.Rabbit labels
20.Tracks of Rabbits
21.Jack Rabbits frolicking
