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 ...

When Donnie Bumgarner kills an elk or deer, he doesn’t want anything, even something 90 percent of hunters throw in the trash, to go to waste. Hunters call it “harvesting,” not killing, for reasons ...

MARYSVILLE – You can get a nice golden-brown hide at Quil Ceda Tanning. Where: 3922 88th St. NE, Marysville What: Makes leather out of animal hides – primarily game like elk, deer and moose. It also ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere in Minnesota, there’s warehouse with thousands of deer, elk and moose hides in various states of processing and preservation. And throughout the country, there are hundreds, perhaps more ...