Animal Tracks and Hunter Signs. Ernest Thompson Seton

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 (e.g. page 41) have been reproduced in approximately three-quarters their original size.

      Since Ernest Thompson Seton was an American writer, no attempt has been made to anglicize the spelling or vocabulary.

       Contents

       NOTE TO THE READER

       1.The Oldest of All Writing

       2.Tracking, Trailing, or Spooring

       3.On Making Track Records

       4.The Coon That Taught Me How

       5.Black-Tracks

       6.Trailing as the Hunter Does It

       7.A Rabbit Adventure

       8.Around an Eastern Farm

       9.Marsh and Woodland Creatures

       10.Track History of Mink and Rabbit

       11.Record of a Woodland Tragedy

       12.Out West

       13.A Chapter of Fox Life

       14.Tracks in Town

       15.The Skunk and the Unwise Bobcat

       16.The Dude on the Trail

       17.Dabbles the Coon

       18.Deer and Antelope Tracks

       19.Some Northern Animals

       20.Scats or Signs

       21.Bear Trees and Other Animal Signs

       22.Blazes and Indian Signs

       23.Blazes Used in Town

       A Final Word

       INDEX

       Illustrations

       1.Tracks near the barn

       2.Woodland and marsh life

       3.Whitetail Deer tracks

       4.Deer in action

       5.Tracks on the farm

       6.Mountain Lion tracks

       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

       22.Trails of Dog, Fox, and Cat

       23.Turtle tracks in mud

       24.Tracks in the mud

       25.Mink on the Rabbit’s trail

       26.A woodland tragedy

       27.Rabbits and Fox speeding

       28.Wolf, Coyote, and Fox

       29.A chapter of Fox life

       30.Tracks in town

       31.Human tracks

       32.The unwise Bobcat

       33.Tracks of Common Skunk

       34.Life of a Coon

       35.Various birds

       36.Tracks of Mule Deer

       37.Tracks of large Antelope

       38.Bull Moose and Possum tracks

       39.Moose tracks

       40.Musk Ox details

       41.Buffalo tracks and signs

       42.Tracks of Caribou

       43.Tracks of Bull Elk

       44.Tracks of Marten

       45.Paws of Marten

       46.Tracks of three large Bears

       47.Track record of Snowshoe Hare

       48.Scatology of the Deer

       49.Scatology of certain Rodents

       50.Scatology of certain Mustelidae