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Turning deer and other animal skins into leather, as I described in the October/November 2016 issue, can lead to the creation of warm and durable clothing, including coonskin caps. The following ...
In the 1950s it was coonskin caps… fifty years later couturier Supreme is offering a line of Coonskin T-shirts, based on the controversial 1975 Ralph Bakshi feature film. (via Meathaus) ...
Back in the Fabulous Fifties, young'uns loved their Davy Crockett coonskin caps more than they loved Lucy. The coonskin cap was so cool, in fact, Jack, that it gave birth ...
See Gazette-Mail photos through the years of Coonskin Park, located near Charleston, West Virginia. What is now a 1,025-acre ...
LOS OLIVOS, Calif. — Heavy hangs the coonskin cap. It’s been almost 50 years since Fess Parker donned the fuzzy headgear that launched the first blockbuster cultural phenomenon of the baby ...
The coonskin cap has been an American favorite from pioneer days to the age of television. Its origins predate the arrival of the white man — the oldest painting of an American Indian shows an ...
Is a cartoon-like college mascot reminiscent of Daniel Boone -- right down to the legendary coonskin cap -- racist, sexist or otherwise offensive? Officials at the University of Denver seem to ...
Dear Car Talk: When I was a kid, many years ago (wearing my Davy Crockett coonskin cap), my friends and I wondered what would happen if we crammed a potato into the exhaust pipe of a car. We figure… ...
The University of Denver Pioneers have always had that fighting spirit -- but lately, much of the fight has focused on the school's long-defunct mascot, a bearded, coonskin-cap-wearing cartoon ...
Over here at Rage Central, we’re doffing the coonskin caps of our collective childhood to mark the passing of actor Fess Parker, who passed away today at the age of 85.
Wearing a southwestern-inspired jacket, statement ring, Timberland boots, and a coonskin cap, Usher tries to do too many things at once with this look. Each element distracts from the other ...
The movie “Pirates of the Caribbean” wasn’t the first entertainment conceived at Disneyland, as millions of Baby Boomers with moldering coonskin caps in the attic can attest. In 1954-55 ...