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40,000 buffalo hides are piled at Rath & Wright's yard in 1878, Dodge City, Kansas....

40,000 buffalo hides are piled at Rath & Wright's yard in 1878, Dodge City, Kansas. In 1871, Charles Rath and
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40,000 buffalo hides are piled at Rath & Wright's yard in 1878, Dodge City, Kansas. In 1871, Charles Rath and his then partner, A.C. Mooar, sent 57 bison hides to New York to sell. Tanners discovered they made ideal machinery belting, a product in great demand by booming factories. With the arrival of the railroad and the powerful Sharps Sporting Rifle, hunters flooded into the western plains to harvest 'buffalo gold'
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1878 AD (C19th AD)
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40,000 buffalo hides are piled at Rath & Wright's yard in 1878, Dodge City, Kansas. In 1871, Charles Rath and his then partner, A.C. Mooar, sent 57 bison hides to New York to sell. Tanners discovered they made ideal machinery belting, a product in great demand by booming factories. With the arrival of the railroad and the powerful Sharps Sporting Rifle, hunters flooded into the western plains to harvest 'buffalo gold' (BSLOC_2019_9_45)

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