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, doubles back when search parties believe he has gone forward, and uses the geography surrounding Seattle to keep an extraordinary number of pursuers guessing. Reports pour in from every direction, rumors spread faster than the posses can investigate them, and separating genuine sightings from false alarms becomes increasingly difficult.Then Harry Tracy disappears.After weeks of robberies, gunfights, hostages, escapes, and one of the largest manhunts the Pacific Northwest had ever seen, authorities suddenly lose the trail of the Oregon State Penitentiary fugitive.Episode 7 follows Tracy through one of the strangest stretches of the entire manhunt—from the aftermath of the Battle of Bothell to Bainbridge Island, West Seattle, Renton, Kent, and the moment the most hunted outlaw in Washington simply seems to vanish.But Harry Tracy’s story was not over.Somewhere beyond the search lines, he was still moving—and the final chapter of the Harry Tracy manhunt was about to begin.This is Episode 7 of the complete Harry Tracy Deep Dive.#HarryTracy #HarryTracyDeepDive #SeattleManhunt #SeattleHistory #WashingtonHistory #PacificNorthwestHistory #WildWest #OldWest #OutlawHistory #WesternHistory #AmericanWest #Manhunt #TrueCrimeHistory #BainbridgeIsland #WestSeattle #Renton #KentWashington #WildWestDeepDives