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Cinead
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http://www.greenleafpress.com/catalog/i ... ts_id=1790

It is EXACTLY what many if us are trying to capture in our persona!
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I already own this one. Fantastic read, loaded with a ton of helpful info for moving unseen through the woods and helpful tips for clothing and kit.
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May have to pick it up
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Looks interesting I may have to get a copy
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n.b., since the original link is gone.

Cinead is referring to Gerry Barker's "Some Thoughts on Scouts and Spies" available on Amazon here and also discussed here. While the book is aimed at those reenacting scouts along the Colonial American frontier, particularly Tennessee and Kentucky, it is almost completely transferable to our own hobby.

CONTENTS:

Author's Preface
SCOUTING
PREPARATION
THE SCOUT
* Formation
* The Pilot
* The Tail
* Flankers
* Route
* Movement
* Navigation
* Security
* Danger Areas
* At the Objective
* Breaks
* Overnight camps and Bases
* Tracking
* Fighting
* Ambushes
* Enemy Trackers
* Messengers
* Survival and Health
* Logistics
* Common Mistakes
AFTER THE SCOUT
POSTSCRIPT

APPENDICES
* Patrol Tips
* Sign Language
* Equipage
* Major Roger's Rules

INDEX



The book is short, (presently) inexpensive, and would I think strongly appeal to most anyone on this site. :)
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Thank heavens for Elleth's necro-posting! :lol:
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Here's the blurb from the Amazon page:
Retired from the U. S. Army with sixteen years in Special Forces,Gerry Barker studied and taught history. His passion has been for living history experiments and adventures that help him understand what it was like to live and work on the Midwestern frontier. Pursuing this, he has taken part in recreated campaigns, built homesteads and stations, driven horses and oxen endless miles on historic trails and been a participant in a number of recreated historic events. These are the grist for his writings. His research is burrowing into the lives and work of his subjects. Gerry has had over fifty articles in print in various magazines, and is a regular contributor to Muzzleloader and The Journal of the Early Americas. His books, both fiction and non-fiction, are steeped in this fervent search to understand the people who lived and worked on the American frontier.
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