Word: buckskins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stuart was a fine figure of a man, just under six feet, big-boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season...
...paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance with their clandestine friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing outlaw of South Dakota's Black Hills, tried to picture his tight-fitting habit of black buckskin, his black "thorough bred steed," his broad black hat with "a thick black veil over the upper portion of his face through the eyeholes of which gleamed a pair of orbs of piercing intensity." Thrilling indeed to New Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked riders through...