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Photographer: Unknown
Taken: Circa 1878
Caption:
Image on Dodge City, a railroad town Marker | Additional Description:
[Caption reads] Charles Rath, shown sitting on top of a rick of hides in his hide yard, was a buffalo hunter and merchant who bought and sold millions of buffalo hides in the early 1870s. His hide yard often contained as many as 50,000 green and dried buffalo hides at a time.Submitted: May 12, 2013, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p241895
File Size: 0.103 Megabytes
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