My brothers had the coonskinned caps but growing up we were all fans of Fess Parker. Only when we were fully grown — and Parker matured, too — that we could appreciate his interest in fine California ...

Stetson University to celebrate the 160th anniversary of its namesake's company with a museum display of hats, hat boxes, ...

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As a self-confessed coonskin-cap-wearer (tail snapped on), we ...

When my boy Coleman was four, he asked for — and got — a Davy Crockett jacket and a coonskin cap for Christmas. Back when Disney celebrated bad asses instead of fruitcakes, he had watched a gazillion ...

Summer’s heat waves proved too much for many a coonskin cap. but Davy Crockett has summer’s sound waves well in hand. The Ballad of Davy Crockett with a flash sale of some 7,000,000 records seems on ...

As Keisean Henderson left for a trip to Florida, his mother put a surprise in his duffle bag. “I need you to do something so you can stand out,” Erica Henderson told her son of the Davy Crockett-style ...