Herein, lies the methodologies of following the various trails of man! The U.S. Marshals are the nation's man hunters and the U.S. Marshal Scout Trackers were a breed all to their own. While every other Deputy U.S. Marshal was busy mastering the technologies of our time, the Scout Trackers were busy mastering the ancient art of primitive tracking in modern times. Appearing as though from the bygone era of the 1800s, these modern U.S. Marshal Scout-Trackers pieced together the footfalls of the criminal element in such a way as to solve the complexities of hundreds of investigative cases. Some of the cases include murder, burglary, robbery, missing and lost persons, evidence recovery, crime scene, cause of death, animal kill site reconstruction, natural resource seizures, fugitive apprehension, perimeter breach, access, and control.

This book shows the details of how professional manhunters did it and how this legacy is still validated through the training programs of retired Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal, Cmdr. Ty Cunningham, former Alaska U.S. Marshal Tactical Tracking Unit commander, and the Wyoming U.S. Marshal Mounted Tracking Unit patrol captain. Cmdr. Cunningham has said, “In these modern times, I coined the term “scout tracking” and “scout-tracker” in the late 1970s, it was not until the mid-1980s when I began pushing the term forward professionally (while in the U.S. Army) that the term for what I did took form. I have spent my whole adult career in the U.S. Army and U.S. Marshals Service using my scout-tracker skills to solve hundreds and hundreds of man-tracking trails as I developed and led two U.S. Marshals Tracking Units. What is contained in this book is to be used as a Scout-Tracker Guide based on the most efficient and proficient man-hunting tactics, techniques, and procedures on the planet. The U.S. Marshal Scout-Trackers, which I commanded, is the last of a breed.”

The U.S. Marshal Scout Tracker tradition continues in the Modern Scout Tracking System™ of the Lost Trail Ranch HQ Alaska and the Scout Tracking Operations School™.