coonskin cap
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Mom cut a faux fur coat into a Davy Crockett coonskin cap that I wore defending the Alamo.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2019
What appears to be Daniel Boone’s mythical coonskin cap 56.
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2016
In one sketch Lester comes out with a plaid shirt, a coonskin cap, and a meat cleaver.
From Slate • May 10, 2015
He wore Davy’s coonskin cap, which was a big, furry bonnet, not the skimpy mass-market version, without a trace of self-consciousness.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2010
From under the brim of his coonskin cap his piercing gray eyes kept watch with a quiet alertness—expecting no danger, indeed, and fearing none, but trained to cool readiness for every vicissitude of the wild.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir