coonskin
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It also turns the leaders of the AI companies into Lewis and Clark in coonskin caps with parchment maps, bravely surveying our country that it might understand its true size.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
One assignment, during the Davy Crockett craze that swept the United States on the heels of a Walt Disney mini-series, was to paint eight-foot-wide coonskin caps.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2017
What appears to be Daniel Boone’s mythical coonskin cap 56.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2016
You were only two years old, and you had on that little coonskin hat with the fur around it and a little plaid jacket to match, and I said, “This is my son.”
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
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