"In portraying pioneer characters on the stage and in moving pictures, actors have worn buckskin clothing--a correct thing for them to do. But I never could take pleasure in looking over certain specimens of mankind whom I have often seen loafing about in public places or holding down chairs in dime museums, togged out in buckskin suits, moccasins, and sombreros, wearing on their faces the nearest thing they could contrive to a do-or-die expression. I never saw a frontiersman who had, among men who knew him, a high rating as a man of ability and brains, who ever cared to make a display of himself in towns and cities by wearing anything which he knew would make him conspicuous." (--from FIFTY YEARS ON THE OLD FRONTIER by James H. Cook)
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