Letter from Wynkoop Kierstead to John Kierstead Jr. regarding shipments of hides from Buenos Aries and the difficulties in getting hemlock trees out of the woods, as there was not enough snow to be able to transport them out on sleighs. The bark of hemlock trees was crucial to Wynkoop's tannery in Mongaup Valley, in the southern Catskill Mountains.

Identifier
NYSL_SC17820_B2F2_001

Date Original
March 19 1864

Language
English

Source
New York State Library, SC17820, John Kiersted Family papers, Box 2, Folder 2.

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