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In old Westerns, trackers could follow fugitives across any landscape at speed, and couldn't be shook by old movie standbys like walking through the water. What's realistic about how well and fast a tracker could track, and are there any other interesting historical aspects of tracking?

by /u/wuop in /r/AskHistorians

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