Stalking Wolf was raised free of the reservations in the
mountains of northern Mexico. Born in the 1870's during a time of
great warfare and violence, he was part of a band of Lipan Apache
that never surrendered. He was taught the traditional ways of his
people and became a shaman and a scout. When he was twenty a vision
sent him away from his people, and for the next sixty-three years
he wandered, seeking teachers and learning the old ways of many
native peoples, and others who lived close to the earth. Stalking
Wolf traveled the length and breadth of the Americas, following the
Creators call. He never held a job, drove a car, paid taxes, or
participated in modern society. When he was eighty-three years old,
he encountered a small boy gathering fossils in a stream bed. He
recognized that boy as the person with whom he would spend his
final years, and to whom he would teach all that he knew. That boy
was Tom Brown, Jr. Tom became the recipient of not only all that
Stalking Wolf had learned during his travels, but the distillation
of hundreds of years of Apache culture as well. These are the
teachings that Tom passes on at his famous Tracking, Nature, and
Wilderness Survival School.