leggins

A pair of drawers or breeches and leggins, were the dress of the thighs and legs; a pair of moccasins answered for the feet much better than shoes.—These were made of dressed deer skin.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

But she wore leggins of doe-skin, deeply fringed with pale green and cinctured in at her waist, where war-axe and knife hung on her left thigh, and powder horn and bullet pouch on her right.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Their leggins come half way up the thigh, and are sewed to their shoes: they are embroidered round the ancle, and upon every seam.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

A scarlet worsted belt went around their waists, their breeches were of smoked buckskin, reaching down to three pairs of blanket socks and moose moccasins, with blue cloth leggins up to the knee.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

Moccasins of deerskin were in general use; also leggins, with the fur turned inward or outward according to the weather.

From Stories of the Badger State by Reuben Gold Thwaites