Crossword-Solution: COONSKIN 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

And who among you will falter at such a call?” There was a brief silence, and then a shout went up from the ranks that drowned the noise of the Falls, and many fell into antics, some throwing their coonskin hats in the air, and others cursing and scalping Hamilton in mockery, while I pounded on the drum with all my might.

Again the postern opened, and this time there was a cheer at sight of a man in hunting shirt and leggings and coonskin cap.

Tom, ye must shoot a turkey, and I’ll do my best to give ‘em a good supper.” Tom rose obediently, and seized his coonskin hat.

Clad in hunting-shirts of buckskin or homespun, wearing wolfskin and coonskin caps, and carrying their long rifles on their shoulders, the wild soldiery of the backwoods tramped into the little French town.

There had evidently been a disagreement between the two when the trade was made, for Joel pulled out a gray pouch of coonskin, took from it a roll of bills, and, without counting them, held them out.