Im engeren Sinne als Kundschafter oder Späher jemand, der
Etymologisch abgeleitet von `zuhören´, französisch escouter, lateinisch auscultō, auscultare.
Heute meist im Sinne von Pfadfinder, ursprünglich eher ein Waldläufer, militärisch (engl.) Reconnaissance (kurz: recce, recon).
Burnham, Frederick Russell
Scouting on two Continents.
Garden City, New York 1926: Doubleday
Herbert Hartkopf
Trapper, Scouts & Pioneers aus der Kurpfalz.
96 S. Ubstadt-Weiher 2009: Regionalkultur.
Farrow, Edward Samuel
Mountain Scouting; a handbook for officers and soldiers on the frontiers. Profusely illustrated and containing numerous notes on the art of travel.
248 S. New York 1881: E.S. Farrow.
Online Inhalt:
The Horse.
The Rifle.
Medical and Surgical Hints.
Useful Information in Post and Field
Field Equipage and Supplies.
Mountain Travel.
Pack Mules and Packing.
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Forced Marches.
Crossing Rivers.
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The Mess.
Living off the Country.
Indian Character.
The
Trail, Signs and Signals.
Skirmishing
A System of Swimming.
Rowing
The Chinook Vocabulary.
James Pike
(1834–1867)
The scout and ranger.
Being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterward a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas, under Generals Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook and Sherman.
XI, 19, 394 S. J.R. Hawley & Co., Cincinnati & New York1865 Reprint Princeton 1932: Princeton University Press. Pp. 164.
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