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| Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer |
(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1902, Charles Rath died in Los Angeles, California. Rath, born near Stuttgart, Württemberg, in 1836, came to the United States in 1848. About 1853 Charles joined William Bent's Colorado trading empire, working as an independent freighter hauling supplies and trade goods across Kansas.
... Rath was among the first to take advantage of the growing buffalo-hide trade, hunting, freighting, and marketing the hides for a high profit. Often the hideyard of the Rath Mercantile Company was filled with 70,000 to 80,000 hides at one time. Continued
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