buck-skin

There, mounted on a handsome black steed, was a singularly imposing figure, garbed in the colorful, buck-skin attire of the backwoods huntsman.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

His form was clothed in a tight-fitting habit of buck-skin, which was colored a jetty black, and presented a striking contrast to anything one sees as a garment in the wild far West.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

One was a beardless youth attired in buck-skin, and armed with knife and pistols; the other a big, burly tough from the upper chain -- grisly, bloated and repulsive.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

Take equal parts of flour of emery and crocus; make into a paste with sweet oil; have now a piece of buck-skin, (hemlock tan,) tack it by each end on a piece of board, with the grain uppermost; then on this spread a little of the paste, and sharpen your tools on it.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

"Very good," and the stranger drew near enough for the Scarlet Boy to perceive that he was clad in buck-skin; well armed; wore a Spanish sombrero, and hair long, down over the square shoulders.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

He would always choose to stay at home and work hard rather than be sent to school, and during the warm season might generally be seen barefooted and bareheaded, with buck-skin breeches suspended often with one leather strap over his shoulder, but sometimes with two.

Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on Walter Hawkins

Pueblo Indians, lonesomely picturesque in buck-skin and red blankets, with silver and turquoise rings and bracelets, were always seated before its doors, trying to sell fruit and pottery to well-tailored tourists.

The Blood of the Conquerors Harvey Fergusson

A youth, attired in buck-skin, and apparently a couple of years younger than Redburn, came sauntering along at this juncture, and seeing an unoccupied chair at one end of the table (for Redburn and the gambler sat at the sides, facing each other), he took possession of it forthwith.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

They wear polished steel corselets and helmets, white buck-skin trowsers, high jack-boots, and at the time of which I write their arms consisted of a brace of heavy, single-barreled pistols in holsters, a carbine and a sabre.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

One remarkable item about his personal appearance, apt to strike the beholder as being exceedingly strange and eccentric, was his costume -- buck-skin throughout, and that dyed to the brightest scarlet hue.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler