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2011 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Arthur Robert Harding (July 1871 - 1930) better known as A. R. Harding was an American outdoorsman and founder of several hunting and trapping magazines. He was also publisher editor and author of many popular outdoor how-to books of the early 1900s. His company was known as the A. R. Harding Publishing Company of Columbus Ohio and St. Louis Missouri. This title is a comprehensive guide on the subject and provides valuable information for those who wish to tan and make leather from cattle horse calf sheep goat deer and other hides and skins. It also explains how to skin handle classify and market the hides. Chapters on skinning curing storing equipment tools materials terms unhairing tanning finishing alum process chrome process acid process bark process buckskin robe skins salting and curing.