Harry Tracy: Vanishing Into the Cascades | Ep. 7

About this episode

Harry Tracy had survived the Battle of Bothell & Woodland Park, and now the 1902 manhunt for the escaped outlaw spread across Seattle and western Washington. Hundreds of men were looking for him—but somehow, Tracy continued slipping through the search lines.In Episode 7 of the Harry Tracy Deep Dive, the hunt moves from Bainbridge Island and Puget Sound into West Seattle, Renton, Kent, and the countryside beyond. Tracy appears without warning, disappears just as quickly, and repeatedly forces ordinary people into the middle of a manhunt that was dominating newspaper headlines across the Pacific Northwest.Homes become temporary hideouts. Residents find themselves face-to-face with one of the most wanted men in America. John Anderson is pulled into Tracy’s escape, while encounters at the Johnson and Gerrells homes reveal a very different side of the fugitive than the gunman newspapers had been describing. All the while, sheriffs, posses, detectives, bloodhounds, militia, and armed citizens try to predict where he will surface next.But Tracy seems to understand the hunt almost as well as the men pursuing him.He moves through populated areas when authorities expect him in the wilderness