Child's "Davy Crockett" hat with brown fur and tail at back. There was a variation that was marketed to girls that became known as the Polly Crockett hat. Similar in style to the boys' cap, it was ...

At its peak, the frenzy started by Parker’s Davy Crockett character helped sell 5,000 coonskin caps a day, causing the price of raccoon fur to jump from 25 cents a pound to $8.

Fess Parker, whose television portrayal of the American frontiersman Davy Crockett catapulted him to stardom in the mid-1950s and inspired millions of children to wear coonskin caps in one of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As a self-confessed coonskin-cap-wearer (tail snapped on), we ...

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao ...

Davy Crockett may conjure images of huntin', fishin', and campin', but he was actually a national craze born from same marketing machine that pumped up crowds for the opening of Disneyland. In a ...

Davy Crockett, a.k.a. "King of the Wild Frontier" claimed to have killed 105 bears in one year, ... a coonskin cap, and—occasionally—a prop musket. A version of this story ran in 2018; ...

By the time pioneers were beginning to settle Kentucky and Tennessee, the coonskin hat had evolved into the hunting cap that we associate with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. When making a ...

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 ...

"The Ballad of Davy Crockett", with its somewhat fanciful lyrics, became a hit. And everywhere, kids could be seen wearing the trademark Davy Crockett coonskin cap -- and it wasn't just kids.

Parker’s portrayal of the coonskin cap-wearing Western hero became an overnight sensation after the first installment, “Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter,” aired in December 1954.

Curator Dwight Blocker Bowers shares the story of Davy Crockett's coonskin cap, now on view in Starring North Carolina! at the North Carolina Museum of History, a Smithsonian Affiliate museum. Made of ...