But who was the man behind this early craze? Many details of Crockett’s life have been exaggerated or are just downright false. Despite the ballad, he wasn’t born on a mountaintop but in a valley.

It all began with the Davy Crockett coonskin hat craze and a bunch of Bohemians yearning to swathe themselves in decades-old fur These three artists come from a long tradition of creating wearable ...