How To Use Buckskins In A Sentence
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The gentleman of the buckskins was the proprietor, with whose bailiff Harry Wakefield had dealt, or was in the act of dealing.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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As with the Williams rendition, Cody is again dressed in buckskins instead of his vaquero outfit.
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Lincoln's pay for his first piece of surveying came in the shape of two buckskins, and it was Hannah who "foxed" them on his trousers.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
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Clean-skinned, copper-colored, lithe and wiry as a tiger cat, with the long, lank, oily black hair of his race, Norton bore himself with all the airs of a European princelet and dressed himself in the beaded buckskins of a savage.
Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
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That ‘mythos’ still lives, although the buckskins have been traded in for pinstripes.
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That ‘mythos’ still lives, although the buckskins have been traded in for pinstripes.
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Sorry Sarah, go put on your buckskins and disappear into the tundra.
Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy
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The Nermernuh had arrived in town in buckskins and breechclouts.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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One Delaware chief still held out for neutrality, announcing that if he had to side with either set of combatants it would be with the "buckskins," or backwoodsmen, and not with the red-coats; but the bulk of the warriors sympathized with the Half King of the Wyandots when he said that the
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
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Cody is again dressed in buckskins instead of his vaquero outfit.
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And yet, and yet . . . he is Davy Crockett, the American's American, folk hero and icon, exemplar of frontier independence, template of man at home alone in the wilderness, teller of tales, drinker of whiskey, a sharpshooting legend in buckskins and a coonskin cap, famous in his own time and ours.
An Inexplicable Gift for Fame
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In contrast to how they are portrayed in existing artwork, the men made great efforts to maintain their issue uniforms rather than abandon them for buckskins and coonskin caps.
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Both were dressed in warbonnets, buckskins, and moccasins.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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No wine but I did have a coonskin cap AND a set of kid-sized buckskins--fringed vest, pants--and a set of moccasins, which I do believe I wore to Disneyland.
Davy Crockett
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In the months after they've wintered at Fort Mandan, their European clothing is starting to wear out and they are transitioning to buckskins.
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Ill wad my best buckskins, and they were new coft at Kircudbright fair, its been a chance job after a.
Chapter XXXII
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The meat of buffalo and deer was a source of food, while the hides provided rawhide and buckskins for teepee covers, blankets, clothes and parfleches.
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On the American frontier, buckskins were often used as units of commerce.
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One old settler relates that for a survey made for him by Lincoln he paid two buckskins, which Hannah Armstrong "foxed" on his pants so that the briars would not wear them out.
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
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Women, including the suburb's mayor, strode about in period dresses and bonnets, men in buckskins or colorful military uniforms of the day.
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She scooped up his buckskins (since he'd been stripped to his smallclothes in order to get water wrestled up from the stream for baths) and flung them at him.
Tran Siberian
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And yet, and yet . . . he is Davy Crockett, the American's American, folk hero and icon, exemplar of frontier independence, template of man at home alone in the wilderness, teller of tales, drinker of whiskey, a sharpshooting legend in buckskins and a coonskin cap, famous in his own time and ours.
An Inexplicable Gift for Fame
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The meat of buffalo and deer was a source of food, while the hides provided rawhide and buckskins for teepee covers, blankets, clothes and parfleches.
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But, for many young people, the anarchists' grunge could never compete with a frothy creation worn by Nick Rhodes or Steve Strange's latest sartorial take on Robinson Crusoe's buckskins.
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Denver citizens made a trip to Washington in 1907, and reporters of the day noted that the city representatives had to "disabuse" the Washingtonians of their belief that wild Indians roamed the streets and the men all dressed in buckskins.
Kate Kelly: Democratic Convention 2008 vs. 1908
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It seems to me that WVU invites the use of the term ‘hillbilly’ when its own mascot is a ‘mountaineer’ - unshaven, clad in buckskins and a coonskin hat, chewing tobacco and toting a musket," he added "andres
UVa Apologizes to WVU for Pep Band at cvillenews.com
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I took to be Mexicans, by their velvet jackets, slashed pantaloons and filagreed hats; darkly weathered, leathery faced, long-haired personages, no doubt scouts and trappers, in fringed buckskins and beaded moccasins; blanket wrapped Indians; and women.
Desert Dust
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Croft, sober in his tweed hunting jacket, tan buckskins and black, white-topped boots, grinned and went up to his friend.
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“Even the traders will be wearing it with their buckskins.”
Judge deveraux
