The rangers wandered the rest of the Northern Dunedain did not. The lived at 'the angle of the mitheithel and bruinen [ I think I mistated one of the rivers earlier - anyway if you follow the river coming down out of Rivendell then when it joins the one coming from the last bridge you have it - the 'hidden fastnes' of the Dunedain].
MM addresses this wandering question rather fully in his article quoted above [ the second one].
btw MM evisions a Northern Dunedain population of 'thousands not hundreds', which too me seems very high, but he does put forth a rational argument concerning their absence from Bree and the Shire.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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