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Leather so soft and tough that frontier wardrobes basically refused to die
means Buckskin is soft, pliable leather made from the tanned hide of a deer (or sometimes sheep or goat), prized for durability and used for clothing, gloves, and footwear.
from A plain compound of "buck" (a male deer, from Old English bucca) plus "skin" (from Old Norse skinn). The word does exactly what it says on the tin: the skin of a buck. It later stretched to name a yellowish-tan color and, in early America, even became a nickname for frontiersmen who lived in the stuff.
- smoke trick
- Smoking the hide keeps it soft after getting wet
- brain tanning
- Each animal has just enough brains to tan itself
- horse color
- Also a tan coat with black mane and tail
- daniel boone
- Frontier icons wore it head to toe
- no rot
- Properly tanned, it outlasts the wearer's grandkids
for instance
buckskin joe colorado — historic mining town and theme park near canon city, colorado, established 1860