June 29, 2017
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June 29, 2017 2:18 p.m.
Donor visits National Bison Range to don historic coat
When Courtney Gimbel came across a buffalo fur coat hanging on the wall of a general store in the Peace River Valley of Alberta, Canada, in 1955, he was intrigued enough to offer $60 for the piece. It wasn’t for another 60 years, when Gimbel was cleaning out his closet, that the coat’s true value set in.