Possible Clues:

• Ring-tailed critter, briefly
• Creature for Crockett's cap
• Masked woods animal, informally
• Critter for a frontiersman's cap
• Nocturnal critter
• Masked 'bandit'
• ___ dog (backwoods hunting pooch)
• ____ Rapids, Minnesota
• Maine -- (cat breed)
• Ring-tailed scavenger, to Crockett