coonskin

In 1954, Disney sparked a youth craze with its “Davy Crockett” serial, with the TV frontiersman’s trademark coonskin cap becoming a must-have for children.

Certain classics — rubber alligators and coonskin caps — remain popular, as do Mexican blankets and Baja jackets.

Glover, a neuroscience major, will officially don the mountaineer’s coonskin cap, buckskins and rifle at the Gold-Blue Spring Game on Saturday, April 18.

Skinned and tanned, he could become a passable coonskin cap.

Mom cut a faux fur coat into a Davy Crockett coonskin cap that I wore defending the Alamo.