Bulletin of the National Speleological Society - ISSN 0146-9517
Number 18: 13-15 - December 1956

A publication of the National Speleological Society

The Leather Man and His Caves
LeRoy W. Foote

Abstract

For nearly a third of a century after the Civil War, residents of Connecticut and New York knew the Leather Man, an itinerant who made his home in caves. Dressed in his special kind of home-made armor, he traveled a circuit of 365 miles in exactly 34 days. Why? Nobody knows. But in spite of his peculiarities he found a place in the hearts of those who fed him, immunity from a tramp law, and a large number of obscure caves in New England which now recall old memories.

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