History
editDeath and burial
editThe 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
editTheories
editIn popular culture
editReferences
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.