Top Hand
Crown: Cavalry Crease | Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband: Contrasting chocolate brown 1/2" Satin Ribbon w/Matching bound edge.
Color as shown: Bone in 100% Beaver Fur-felt.

A Hybrid Cowboy Hat - between the traditional and the modern. 19th Century Cavalry crown working, combined with a modern rodeo turn to the brim. Setting the whole look off is a contrasting bound brim, and satin hat band. We started off with an oversized hat body {as we have with the rest of the hats on this page}in pure 100% Beaver fur-felt in a bone color. This is one of the most popular looks sported by professional cowboys. First come, first to be served.

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This hat will get lots of attention at the barn dance, or in the winner's circle.

Chute Boss
Crown: Cattleman Crease | Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband: 1/2" satin with bow. Matching bound edge
Color as shown: Sahara in Pure Beaver Fur Felt

The Chute Boss is responsible for telling the competitors their order, getting the stock set for the right riders, and ensuring everything's as it should be before the chute's opened and the cowboy and critter explode out into the infield. An important job demands an important hat.

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Tall in the Saddle
Crown: Modified Cattleman Crease | Brim: Hand Curled and Open
Hatband: 1/2" satin cavalry tie off.
Color as shown: Silver Belly

One of the most distinctive of the dozens of variations of the traditional Cattleman's crease this beauty will have you sitting tall in the saddle everywhere you go. The sleek and elegant shape of this Custom high crown cowboy hat will look good in the boardroom - or on the range.

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Wooden Hat Stretcher/Retainer FITS SIZES 6 7/8 - 8
We recommend all customers who buy our hats, get a hat stretcher. Its a small cost for a tool that will keep ALL your hats fitting properly. As well, if you only wear your hat seldom; or have a number of hats you wear, you will find our wooden hat stretcher a valuable addition to maintaining the perfect shape of your custom cowboy hat.

Order any hat in PURE BEAVER {100X} fur-felt and we'll include a wooden hat stretcher at no extra cost. New hat purchases only.

Order with your hat
Our hat customers pay only $19.50 when they buy a stretcher with their hat. You can easily add the hat stretcher to your custom cowboy hat order during the checkout process.

Line Dancer
Crown: Modified Canadian
Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband: 1" satin ribbon w/bow.
Color shown: Bone in Pure Beaver

In the early 1990s country music star, Garth Brooks, took his traditional country sound and mixed in pop music, and the popularity of country music soared. Clint Black, Alan Jackson, and the rest of Nashville rode shotgun and all of a sudden anything to do with the country or western lifestyle was in demand around the world. Retailers couldn't stock enough cowboy boots, jeans, cowboy hats, and western styled shirts to keep up with demand. This hat style reminds us of the 1990s.

This was when denim really entered the traditional workplace. Before long world class designers were revamping or introducing their own jean designs, and Bankers in Germany were wearing Hugo Boss Jeans with their Hugo Boss sport coats. And Line Dancing TV shows were everywhere - the way poker shows are now. Thanks Mr. Brooks!

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Bull Rider
Crown: Canadian
Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband: 1" satin ribbon w/bow. Contrasting bound edge.
Color as shown: Chocolate in Pure Beaver

"The most dangerous eight seconds in sport." Is the way Bull Riding is often described, and it's not an exaggeration. Jim Shoulders is a sixteen time World Champion and offers his view on what makes people flock to the bull-riding event at every rodeo, "It's the same reason people glance off the road to get a better look at a car wreck. It's why the Romans went to the Coliseum to see the lions eat the Christians. People don't want to see somebody die, but they darn sure want to be there when he does." 

A variation of this hat style is worn by Henry Fonda in the western film; Fire Creek (1968).

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Custom Hand Made Hatbands

Freshen the look of your favorite old hat with a new custom hat band from The Last Best West. Introduced in the spring of 2011 our hatbands are all made by hand, and have that authentic Cowboy flavor to help you stand out from the herd. We still won't sell the custom hat bands that go with our great hats, but here's a selection of 8 original hatband's to help you make your own statement.

We've adapted a horn slider so every hat band ties off at the back and is held in place by light pressure. It's surprising fast and you can easily take our hatband off and put it on a different hat. This design innovation gives a dang fine fit every time. :: Custom Hatbands

The Life of a Rodeo Cowboy
Every year hundreds of Rodeo Cowboy's pay their own way from rodeo to rodeo, all across the west, in the hopes of qualifying for the Calgary Stampede Rodeo, and the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Held in the first week of July and December respectively; this is where the top fifteen cowboys of every event, compete head to head for the Champion's Championship, the fancy belt buckle, and the big money pay-out.

Getting in to the top fifteen is impressive enough, but winning takes more than guts, and determination. The overall winner generally displays superior skill and talent, and quite often superior luck as well. Because if the cowboy doesn't get the right draw of a horse, bull, or steer that'll perform for him - he ain't gonna win. Real simple.

These current professional cowboys wear our hats

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Junior Buckaroo
Crown: Cattleman Crease | Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband: 3/4" satin pink polka dot with bow. Matching bound edge.
Color as shown: Custom Color - Navy.

In Cowboy Slang a Buckaroo is a working cowboy. If you'd like a quality western hat for your little buckaroo, you've come to the right place. The pink polka dot hat band and bound brim was made for our Master Hatter's four year old daughter. We can do any of our hat's in child's sizing, and we'll even tell you a trick to get an extra year or two of wear out of the hat before it's out grown.

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Rodeo Royal
Crown: Cattleman Crease | Brim: Hand Curled and Bound :: Hatband: 1/2" leather with buckle.

These hats were made for young ladies competing for Rodeo Queen tittles at various rodeo's around the West. Hat to the left is in black with ostritch hide, with bound edge. Two hats below have hair on hide, buck stitch edge. Choose, ostritch, or light, or dark hair on hide, as the feature hide on the brim, during the check out process. This look can be applied to any of our hat styles/crown shapes.

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Money Round
Crown: Cattleman Crease | Brim: Hand Curled and Open
Hatband: 1/2" cloth with buckle.
Color as shown: Bone

The Money Round at a Rodeo is the last day, when all the hard rides and bruises are forgotten as the cowboys vie for the Champion's buckle and the fat pay envelope. This hat will do you proud as you spur hard, or just watch the rides unfold.

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The Stockman
Crown: Modified Gus Crease | Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband: 1" satin w/bow.
Color as shown: Charcoal

The Stockman at any rodeo is the person responsible for finding, acquiring, or renting all the stock necessary to run the rodeo. Always on the lookout for the superstars of the 4 legged set, these men do a lot of traveling in their search for that special bucking horse or bull.

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Line Rider
Crown:Fat Dent Cattleman | Brim: Hand Curled and Open
Hatband: 1/2" satin with bow. Matching bound edge
Color as shown: Dyed Natural in 50% Beaver Fur Felt

On a large spread Line Shacks are positioned at the boundaries, in high country or rough terrain. Cowboys spend weeks sometimes months, in a line shack, riding the periphery during the day, looking for strays and checking fence.

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Dakota Fancy
Crown: Cattleman Crease | Brim: Hand Shaped and Bound
Hatband: 1" Cloth with Indian Motif: Matching cloth on bound edge.
Color as shown: Black

This Custom Rodeo Hat is dressed up with a distinctive Indian motif on the cloth hat band and bound brim edge. A great looking hat for that fancy dress occasion - it'll also get lot's of comments and attention in the bunkhouse.

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Custom Leather Products
Buffalo Hide Rifle Sheath

Indian Style - This soft rifle scabbard is made from garment quality Buffalo hide. Can also be done in standard buckskin color. Has a long "waterfall" fringe, and a fold over weather flap with a bone button for closure against the elements. Decorated with beads and studs. We will e-mail you within 24 hours for sizing and customizing instructions. Price is subject to change - depending on size and add ons requested. This Indian style rifle sheath is in black and was made for a 1901 Winchester Model 1894 32-40 - take down.

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