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Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 3742-00001
Title: Buffalo hunter taking robes and tongues, Smokey Butte (Mont.)
Date: ca. 1879
Creator: Huffman, L. A.--(Laton Alton),--1854-1931
Inscription/Marks: In the Big Dry Creek region twixt Yellowstone & Missouri. c L. A. Huffman Post Photographer
Summary: A buffalo hunter works to skin the hide from bison killed near Smokey Butte (Mont.)||A good skinner could remove the hides from 30 carcasses in one day. Hunters usually hired two to six skinners.
Red ID: PH_I_92446 Image ID: 38614 Image Notes: A3742-00001

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 3742-00001
Title: Buffalo hunter taking robes and tongues, Smokey Butte (Mont.)
Date: ca. 1879
Creator: Huffman, L. A.--(Laton Alton),--1854-1931
Inscription/Marks: In the Big Dry Creek region twixt Yellowstone & Missouri. c L. A. Huffman Post Photographer
Summary: A buffalo hunter works to skin the hide from bison killed near Smokey Butte (Mont.)||A good skinner could remove the hides from 30 carcasses in one day. Hunters usually hired two to six skinners.
Red ID: PH_I_92446 Image ID: 38615 Image Notes: A3742-00001-back

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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