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 ...

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.

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 ...

After the Coonskin Cap. By Bob Greene. March 20, 2010; Share full article. Chicago “WELL,” Fess Parker said, “it’s an interesting thing to live with.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coonskin caps were everywhere that year as a result of the popular Disney miniseries about the American folk hero. The real Crockett represented Tennessee in Congress but lost that seat in part ...

At the height of their popularity in the 1950s, children's coonskin caps like this one from the Smithsonian collections, sold at the rate of 5,000 per day. NMAH In a culture obsessed with novelty ...

Parker's coonskin cap costume was fashioned from the skin and fur of raccoon, including its head and luxuriant tail. He donated it, along with other costume elements, to the National Museum of ...