Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some others captured Hill, Ray's baby-faced cellmate, by a burned-out cabin. The dogs then led the guards to the New River, where Ray had hoped to lose his pursuers. For a time, he succeeded, running upstream for about 600 yds. Looking for the trail, Sammy Joe Chapman and Johnny Newburg headed upriver with two fresh dogs: Sandy and Little Red, a pair of 14-month-old females. The hounds quickly picked up Ray's trail. In a fury, they took off up the river toward the Cumberland strip mine...
...tracker's real training comes from years of hunting in the thick oak and hickory woods or gathering ginseng roots, which sell for $75 a pound and are used as a tonic to prolong sexual endurance. Notes Guard Rich Trail, 20: "I've been goin' squirrel huntin' and coon huntin' and ground hog huntin' and rabbit huntin' as long as I can remember." Adds Guard Sammy Joe Chapman, 33, who caught Ray and the last escapee, Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those...
Finding telltale signs of a man on the run is no job for a novice. Garrison, who spotted the trail that eventually led to Ray's seizure, can tell approximately how long ago some underbrush was shoved aside or crushed by men's feet, simply by the color of the brush-a fresh break has almost no discoloration, but an older break is brownish. Garrison can also determine if a convict has a partner traveling with him by noting that a twig has been bent back or broken shoulder-high. "There's almost an instinct...
Prisoners resort to all sorts of stratagems to throw a dog off the trail. Some escapees have sprinkled pepper on their shoes or changed clothes -to no avail. Sloshing through a stream works, at least until the fugitive steps on dry ground and the dog is able to pick up the scent again. Surprisingly, a runaway's best defense is dry weather, which can often blend all local smells together, making them indistinguishable to a hound. Thus when thunderstorms hit the Cumberlands last week after a dry spell, Don Daugherty knew by his old mountaineer's instinct that...
...seen as a clear case of the good guys against the bad, will tell you that although the experience is physically exhausting and emotionally draining, it is also probably the most exciting couple of months they've ever experienced. People who find themselves at the end of the trail--both politicians and reporters--often feel the urge to write about it; hence the overflowing cornucopia of political novels good and bad, and the more recent explosion of campaign books that claim to be nonfiction. Rarely, however, does a good political novel so closely tread the path of reality that...