My grandfather, Buford Leroy DeBushe, holding one of the silver fox pelts, and my grandmother, Esther Maria Adelina Johnson DeBushe, sitting in a chair and admiring the pelt. She would have been about 35 at the time and was a redhead. DeBushe's age is questionable as I have 6 possible years of birth for him (between 1874-1884). This is a photo that was put in a promotional booklet (I have a copy of the booklet) for the silver fox ranch around 1923.
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