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Before the advent of chemical tanning of hides to make leather, animal skins were subjected to all kinds of strange concoctions to degrease and soften them. Urine, wood ashes, tree bark acid, and even ...

Avoid putting holes in a hide by tanning hides with salt, and learn how to tan a hide naturally for valuable leather goods to use around the homestead. Every rural carnivore knows that home-raised ...

You’re not a fur trader, so many of the terms—hide, skin, fur, pelt, and buckskin—used to describe the outer coat of wild game animals may seem interchangeable. (And frankly, a lot of them are.) But ...

THE PLAINS –– At the end of the cul-de-sac sits Talcon Quinn's canary yellow ranch, a home that her grandparents built decades ago. It's quiet and unassuming, and thankfully she has known the ...

On the reservation in the early 1970s, Belitz talked to old people who remembered helping their grandmothers in the late 1800s and early 1900s brain-tan buffalo hides. They didn't remember much about ...