Since I've been spending some time tanning deerskins into buckskin, let's take a look at some of the uses for buckskin the Western trappers had.
Typically it was used for clothing. Shirts, pants and moccasins being most common.

Washington Irving describing the appearance of free trappers:
His gun is lavishly decorated with brass tacks and vermilion, and provided with a fringed cover, occasionally
of buckskin, ornamented here and there with a feather.

Charles Larpenteur describing trappers unloading beaver skins in St. Louis:
in their strange mountain costume — most of
their garments of buckskin and buffalo hide, but all so well greased and worn that it took close
examination to tell what they were made of.

Ruxton describing the general dress of free trappers:
The costume of the trapper is a hunting-shirt of dressed buckskin, ornamented with long fringes; pantaloons of
the same material, and decorated with porcupine-quills and long fringes down the outside of the
leg, a flexible felt hat and moccasins clothe his extremities.

Rufus Sage describing the free trapper's clothes:
His clothes are of buckskin, gaily fringed at the seams with strings of the
same material, cut and made in a fashion peculiar to himself and associates. The deer and buffalo
furnish him the required covering for his feet, which he fabricates at the impulse of want

Antoine Clement, by Alfred Jacob Miller

Well-greased pantaloons are a must on the trapline!

I like the painting, K Snow. He’s handsome and he looks happy

Good info, thanks , always look forward to Mondays

Those passages are golden for those that like to attire themselves as the mountain man once did.

Good stuff K.

Nice history article. I always have liked leather garments. I have a thick soft lace up shirt made I think, of elk. It's thicker than deerskin , so I'm guessing elk. Very soft and comfy to wear. Other than the Mtn Man rondys, I've seen quality leather clothes at the authentic Celtic festivals too.

I wanted to tell you from your last weeks thread , I'm glad you like the old rifles ! I only was referring to my taste alone. There is something for everyone, so the main point is, all firearms are great in the variety offered in our wonderful free country. I did shoot an old 50 Hawken years ago. That was fun.

Thank you for sharing today, K snow.