The Coonskin Cap: Legend or Hype?
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The Iconic Legend of the Coonskin Cap:
From humble native headwear to a million-dollar sales item, the coonskin cap has a long and fascinating history (and it isn’t over yet). Join us as we break down the story behind this head warming and legendary hat.
The intro song is called Davy Crockett; Falling of the Pines
Courtesy Library of Congress, Alan Lomax collection of Michigan and Wisconsin, American Folklife Center
*My knit cap was made by Emily Burns: emilyd.burns@yahoo.com
*My round wool felt hat was made by M.Brenkle: brencklehats@gmail.com
A lot of other stuff was made either by me or other artisans whose work will likely be showcased in other videos in the future.
Loved your presentation!
Thanks so much!
I made mine about 10 years ago.
It's a hood design so I can keep rain and snow out of my shirt. Lol.
Great and very insightful video!!!!
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Good video
Glad you enjoyed!
Love the kids at the end doing what kids ought to be doing. ❤
Thanks. They love it too it is just hard to find clothes every year as they grow.
Hi thanks for the topic. I was always interested in what the backwoodsman of the time wore. I did find a few references of rifleman wearing fine skin caps with trousers. I look forward to the next !
Do Girls Wear Coonskin Hat To?
I did not see any evidence in my research that indicated that they did but I am sure that women had a similar of not identical solution to cold weather headwear. In the 1950’s and 60’s there were Polly Crockett coonskin caps. They were white with pink embroidered letters across the top.
I Have A Coonskin Hat!
@@MaverickShinyStarGryphonAre you a grill?
Outstanding as all the videos of the early frontier are unfolding from your channel. Looking forward to many more......
Noah Ludlow never let the facts get in the way of a story he could star in.
Ha! No he didn’t.
Quite interesting & informative....look forward to future episodes....great way to raise the youngsters....
Most excellent series
Thank you!
Another excellent video. I might have mentioned the fantail cocked hat and the ranger cap as well as their places on the frontier. However, excellent work.
The cap makes so much sense in the woods.
I think I'll skip the trash panda hat. It looks better on the original owner.
Many years ago, when i started participating in Buckskinning, I fell under the spell of the fur hat. I made myself a skunk and white rabbit fur hat from hides i tanned. I didn't wear it for more than two events. It wasn't practical, and was very warm. I went with, and have gone through several wool felt hats since then (i moved away from the recreational Buckskinner/rendezvous scene to a more accurate, challenging, historical, immersion lifestyle).
The affinity for fur hats is still alive among the part time, tourist motivated, hollywood inspired, reenactors. They do look amazing in their beautiful (really) fur headwear, often full hide, bead covered warshirts, and leggings. While not so true to the intent, they do provide the wow factor that is necessary to impress and draw in new participation blood. Some fellows will maintain that look for decades, loving it. I encourage and defend their right to get what they seek from their hobby. Until they misrepresent the history and damage the message in an educational vein. Easy to do when unknowing people looking to be educated flock to the spectacle, but ignore the historically correct "gray man", full of correct information, but properly blending in.
I have always thought that running around these days with an animal hide on your head through the woods, with all the yahoos running around with more bullets in their magazines than brains to be a bit dicey.
Good video.
Edit. Forgot to mention that as a boy I had my official Davy Crockett coonskin cap from Disneyland. Fake fur cap and real hide tail. So cool.
Thanks for taking to time to write your experiences!
As a former member of the Morristown, TN community, I approve this message!
Ha! It’s good to get hometown approval in these things.
That account from Fort Stanwix... where can a person find it? Very good video.
Thanks for the question. A friend provided it for me and cited it as being located here:
Priest, [Josiah]; "The True Narrative of the Capture of David Ogden, among the Indians, in the time of the Revolution." W. B. Harkness, Lansingburg, [New York]. 1841, p.10.
@thedeerskindiary oh thank you. Appreciate it.
Hype but hype works