Our Master Hatter
When Monty's not busy making cowboy hat's for The Last Best West he still manages to spend time as a working cowboy - when the call comes from his wife's family for branding, roundup, and even the odd cattle drive. You may be able to take the Cowboy off the trail, but you'll never take the trail out of the Cowboy. . . .

Brad's brother, Scott Montague, is a professional rodeo competitor and became one of the sports top Bareback Riders. Scott's gone to the NFR three times and won the prestigious Calgary Stampede Bareback Crown in 2002. Scott still rides competitively today.

Masters of Rodeo Custom Western Hats
Each year many of the competitors at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas wear our quality custom hats. In 2007 seven of the fifteen NFR Qualifiers in Bareback and one bulldogger, one team roper, and four saddle bronc riders, all wore our hats. When the dust settled at the 2007 NFR, of those elite cowboys the Champion bare back rider, Bobby Mote, was wearing one of our hats. Good riding Bobby!

The Calgary Stampede Rodeo, like the NFR, is by invitation only. Every year the top 15 Cowboys in the world, in each discipline, are invited to compete over the rodeo's ten days, in early July. Since 1912 the Calgary Stampede has been "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", and is the single largest payday in Rodeo today. From Ladies Barrel Racing to Bull Riding, the winner's all go home with a cool 100,000 in Canadian cash. Our congrats to Canadian Davey Shields Jr. for winning the bare back championship at the 2007 Calgary Stampede. Our hat never looked so good!

The competitors at the first Calgary Stampede in 1912 were mostly working cowboys, who rode for decent prize money, but mostly for bragging rights. American Cowboys won most of the competitions, but the crowd favorite was a local cowboy. Tom Three Persons got out of jail just hours before riding the most notorious saddle bronc of the day, Cyclone, to a standstill. Masters of Rodeo Series

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