History edit
Death and burial edit
The inscription on his gravestone read:[1]
FINAL RESTING PLACE OF
Jules Bourglay
OF LYONS, FRANCE
"THE LEATHER MAN"
who regularly walked a 365-mile route
through Westchester and Connecticut from
the Connecticut River to the Hudson
living in caves in the years
1858–1889
Exhumation and reburial edit
Theories edit
In popular culture edit
References edit
- ^ Zucker, Dave (March 24, 2021). "Who Was Westchester's Mysterious and Legendary Leatherman?". Westchester Magazine. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- DeLuca, Dan W.; Longley, Dione, eds. (2008). The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6862-5. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- Lemoult, Craig (May 26, 2011). "Search For Clues Only Deepens 'Leatherman' Mystery". Morning Edition. NPR. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- Marteka, Peter (December 26, 2014). "Following The Mysterious 'Leatherman' To His 'Cave' In Watertown". Hartford Courant. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- Day, Cassandra (March 20, 2019). "Quinnipiac University grad student retracing steps of CT's famed Leatherman". The Middletown Press. Retrieved August 25, 2022.