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William S. Hart - early film pioneer.

The Last Best Cowboy Hat

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You won't find these western hats at your nearest mall. Many of the brim shapes or crowns may look familiar, may even be the same, but they are poor imitations, cookie-cutter designs; mass produced and available virtually anywhere. Don't follow the herd - strike out on your own with a classic custom western hat from The Last Best West.

For more than 60 years many of the best western movies and series have been filmed in and around Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Including AMCs dynamic new ongoing series, Hell on Wheels. Other powerful western drama's like; River of No Return; Unforgiven, Legends of the Fall, Open Range, Crossfire Trail, Monte Walsh, Lonesome Dove (the series), Broken Trail, Speilberg's mini-series, Into the West, and the 2007 Brad Pitt western; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, are just a few of the dozens of western's that have been filmed here. Click for everything you need to know about our hats :: Testimonials :: Our Hat Expert

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Authentic Designs from The Last Best West
We take our western heritage seriously and work hard at preserving the qualities that made it great. Our custom hats are made the old west way - one at a time, and believe if you want that perfect western movie hat - you should be able to get the same looking hat that the character wore. We start with the best fur-felt hat body available - made in the USA - and with the skill of our master hatter fashion as fine a custom western hat as you can find.
OUR STANDARD DELIVERY IS STILL 6- 8 weeks for our quality hand made cowboy hats.
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Augustus cowboy movie hat.

5X Fur-Felt
Price: $295.00 | Shipping: $35.00
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The Augustus
Duvall's hat from Lonesome Dove.
Crown: Centre crease, pinched and worked
Brim
: Hand worked curl - Open
Hatband: Custom 1/2" leather braid
Color
as shown: Sand

Loveable old Ranger Augustus McCrae is the scallywag that keeps the Hat Creek Cattle Company loose. A great counter balance to the salty Woodrow Call, Robert Duvall suits this part to a T.

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Robert Duvall in the excellent western
mini-series, Lonesome Dove.

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Captain Call hat

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Captain Call
Tommy Lee Jones hat from Lonesome Dove.
Crown:Open
Brim
: Bound Hand shaped dipped front and back.
Hatband: Satin Ribbon with bow Color: Black in 20X fur-felt

A great role for Tommy Lee Jones; Captain Woodrow Call is an uncompromising man that lives his life in stoic silence, with only Augustus McCrae willing to challenge his surly moods.

Like the character this hat is simple, unrefined, and basic. A classic Boss of the Plains with a heavy dip front and back on the bound brim. Add our classic windstring {if you wish} during the checkout process.

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Custom Movie Hat.

Jake Spoon
Robert Ulrichs' hat from Lonesome Dove.
Crown: Modified Sagebrush :: Hatband: Satin Ribbon/Bow
Color
: Sahara :: Brim: Kettle curl/hand roll - Bound

This is a big dang hat - befitting the self-centred character deftly played by Robert Ulrich. Everything is about Jake, and this thoughtless, arrogant, gambler makes a bad choice and ends up riding with the wrong crew.

Gus McCrae: "You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line."

Jake Spoon: "I didn't see no line Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that's all."

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20X - 50% Beaver Fur-Felt Price: $435.00
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Every role in Lonesome Dove is well cast, and ex-Ranger Jake Spoon is no exception. Ulrich takes this role and gives it the bravado the character demands.

Our hats off to Phil Rupp
for ordering the 1st one.

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Young Jake
Ryan Merriman 's hat from Comanche Moon.
Crown: 4 dent campaign Brim:Kettle curl; Hand worked - Bound
Hatband: Satin ribbon w/bow Color: Bone in pure beaver.

Patterned after a traditional 1898 U.S. Cavalry Campaign Hat - we start with an oversized hat body to make this hat - add our classic windstring {if you wish} during the checkout process.

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5X Fur-Felt Price: $310.00
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20X - 50% Beaver Fur-Felt Price: $435.00
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We've made a number of custom hats for serving soldiers, and the Jake Spoon is one of them. Our hats off to Marine Sergeant Willeford for ordering this hat while serving in Afghanistan. God Bless.

Ryan Merriman is a young Jake Spoon in the prequel; Comanche Moon.{2008}

The Missing  movie hat.

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Samuel Jones
Tommy Lee Jones hat from The Missing.
Color: Pecan :: Crown:Open :: Brim: Bound Gentle hand roll.
Hatband: Satin Ribbon with bow, with matching bound edge.

Tommy Lee Jones seems to favor these open crowned style cowboy hats. Here's another, from that outstanding western; The Missing.

Very well acted, The Missing is a dark western full of mystical moments, and eire themes. Likely a little too intense for most people, this western from 2003 has one of the truly memorable bad-guys from film, the Brujo, played by Eric Schweig. Click here for the hat Cate Blanchett wore.

Add our classic windstring {if you wish} during the checkout process.

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OUR MOST COMMON HAT QUESTION
Q: I'm looking for a ____ Hat. I checked your product catalogue and didn't see it. Can you make it?

A: Yes. As I'm sure you can appreciate it's just not possible to show all the different variations of crowns and brims. If it's made from fur-felt and you can supply us a good picture - yes we can make it. Generally we already carry the same style of hat, we just shape it based on the photo or if it's a movie hat we shape it from watching the movie and seeing the hat from all possible angles to get the look just so. We can do up to a 7" (inch) high crown and a 6" wide brim. Click for our other most common questions.

Custom Wind String.

Heavy Latigo lace includes this polished, hand-made antler slider. Never lose your hat again with this handsome stampede string.

Add this custom wind string to any of our custom hats for 25 dollars during the check out process.

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Hat Retainer

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.

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Custom Made For. . . .
All our custom western hat's are personalized with your name, initials, or moniker stamped in gold foil on the sweat band, inside the crown. No additional charge.

Where'd those great Cowboy Hats from the Western Movies come from?
Many were versions of traditional cowboy hats from the 1800s - but most were from the imaginations of the early movie stars like Tom Mix. The old "B" Westerns from the 1930s and 40s were rife with grandiose Cowboy Hats. Many of today's most popular mass produced cowboy hat designs were first seen in the Movies.

  1. A still from a silent western from the 1920s. Notice the "Sugarloaf" Western Sombrero on the left. This shape was the transition from a straight sombrero to the Cowboy Hat. The actor in the middle is wearing a version of our "Champie"
  2. Nothings new under the Sun! Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine {1946} The shape of his Cowboy Hat is almost the same as hats in later Western Movies: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Open Range.
  3. A young Ben Johnson with a great Character Hat in the classic western, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon {1949} 
  4. Alan Ladd as "Shane" {1953} wearing a gunfighter style cowboy hat similar to our version - the Hidalgo.

Custom Hat Customers  
Want to order one of our custom made Last Best Cowboy Hats with a check or money order? Or maybe you have a friend or relative that would like to but doesn't have a computer. Now you can order one of our quality custom western hats by printing out an order form and mailing it in. Please click on this link for a pdf file you can save to your hard drive, and follow the instructions. If anything is unclear please call or email us at:

Sassy Ladies Cowboy Hats

Why should men have all the fun?
Over the years, many of the wives and girlfriends that have ordered hats for their cowboys, have asked when we were going to do some strictly ladies hats. - so here we go, and remember ladies; back in the day all women's hats had the bow on the right.

Exceptional Service from The Last Best West
Ladies, we will give you expert personal service designing your Traditional Old West, or Classic Western Movie Hat. If you don't see what you want - send us a picture - and we'll make our version of that hat.

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Sundance Kid Hat

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This hat is pretty nondescript, and almost the same as the one worn by Newman as Butch Cassidy.

5X Fur-Felt Price: $295.00
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The Sundance Kid
Robert Redford's hat from Butch Cassidy. . . .
Color: Chocolate :: Crown:Telescope
Brim
: Open Gentle hand roll.
Hatband: Custom 1/2" distressed brown leather.

Steve McQueen or Marlon Brando were the movie studio's choice to play the Sundance Kid. But Paul Newman and the director; George Roy Hill had their way and Robert Redford was cast.

The movie was a smash, making Redford a star, and the movie song by Bacharach and David, won the academy award for best song: Raindrops keep Falling on my Head.

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Robert Redford bears a remarkable resemblance to the historical Harry Longabaugh and shines in, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (1969)

This movie is easy to like, very entertaining, and follows what history knows of Butch, Sundance, and Etta, very closely.

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Long Haired Frontier Fur felt.

FRONTIER FUR FELT
The Dodge City is shown in long hair Beaver fur-felt. Some call it SHAGGY some call it GRIZZLY, we prefer the name FRONTIER fur-felt to describe it, as this is what the very first beaver fur-felt would have been like. Not as long as Bill Cody's hat to the right, but longer than today's standard hat bodies.

You've likely seen this look before in a western movie. You can generally spot a long haired fur-felt in most of the westerns filmed in the 1930s and 40s. Errol Flynn wore it in several of his western movie's.

Has all the same characteristics as our fine, standard hat bodies - just a longer finish to the fur of the hat.

You can request Frontier Fur Felt for any of our hats, when your hat details are confirmed with Sonja, within a day of your purchase being made.
No extra charge.

The Dodge City  
Color:Undyed Natural :: Crown: Top Dent
Brim: 1" kettle curl with gentle hand roll.
Hatband: 1" Satin Ribbon/bow, with optional horse hair hat band #3.

After filming The Adventures of Robin Hood, Warner Brothers top action star; Errol Flynn was rushed into his first western role, in the 1939 western; Dodge City. The movie is quite entertaining, with Flynn playing Wade Hatton with more than a dash of Robin Hood - if you catch my drift. Flynn favoured this hat shape in many of the westerns he later appeared in.

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Errol Flynn swash buckles as Wade Hatton in the classic western; Dodge City; (1939)

Shown with optional horse hair hat band #3. Click for all our horse hat band choices. Easily select your hat options during the checkout process.

Virtually the same hat style is worn by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Quick and the Dead. (1995)

This hat is rendered in standard or short-haired beaver fur-felt.

Buffalo Bill Cody

An early picture of a young Buffalo Bill Cody wearing a long-haired Frontier Cowboy Hat. Notice the bound edge.

Custom Rifle Sheaths
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Front page of the Calgary Herald; September 21, 2007.
Our Hickok Custom Cowboy Hat goes to the movies! Oh. . .that's our pard Red under it and Sonja at his side at the World Premier of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Hickok Custom Hat

The Hickok
Crown: Texas flat
Brim: Kettle Curl Bound
Hatband: 1 1/2" Satin with Bow
Color shown: Black

Bill Hickok was larger than life and he liked his hats the same way - this is our best guess on what Wild Bill was wearing in the picture at right. We start with an oversized hat body to make this classic western hat, with a short crown and wide brim.

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5X Price: $320.00 :: Shipping: $35.00
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Sahara colored Hickok custom hat to the left. The taller crown was a customer request.

Brim's worked different - but essentially the same hat Keith Carradine sports as Wild Bill in HBO's Deadwood.

Shown with optional horse hair hat band #4. Click for all our horse hat band choices. Easily select your hat options during the checkout process.

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Yellowstone Kelly
Crown: Modified Cavalry Pinch
Brim: Hand rolled with 1" kettle curl Bound Edge
Hatband: 1 1/2" Chocolate brown satin with 1898 bow
Color as shown: Whiskey

This is a new hat design for us based on what we think Yellowstone Kelly is wearing at right. The brim we have pretty dang close and we have used a crown treatment that would have been in keeping with the style exhibited by this cultured warrior.

The historical Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly was a celebrity during his life. Born in New York in 1849 he fought during the Civil War and finished his army career out west on the frontier. Yellowstone earned his moniker during the 1870s and 80s exploring/trapping and scouting for the army in the Yellowstone River basin. Very intelligent and well read, it was not uncommon for Kelly to quote Shakespeare as he went about his business. More about Yellowstone Kelly.

Warner Brothers made a standard formula western featuring its remuda of contract TV actors, with Clint Walker (bottom right) playing the lead in the 1959 western; Yellowstone Kelly.

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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

Lonergan hat from Cowboys and Aliens

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Cowboys and Aliens
Daniel Craig's Jake Lonergan
hat.
Crown: Modified Cavalry pinch
Brim
: Hand shaped - Open
Hatband: 1/4" ribbon tied cavalry style.
Color Shown: Chocolate in 100% Beaver Fur-felt

We really enjoyed Cowboys and Aliens, it is kind of a cross between Aliens and Tombstone, with a fine cast. In addition to Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford has a great role as the heavy handed cattle baron, Woodrow Dolarhyde.

After Dolarhyde's son and dozens of other townfolk are abducted, Dolarhyde, bands with the outlaw Lonergan, and other men in the area and set off after the Aliens. Big actors, big adventure, and big special effects.

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5X Fur-felt Price: $290.00
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Daniel Craig plays ruthless cut throat, turned reluctant hero, Jake Lonergan, in 2011s highly entertaining big sci-fi western, Cowboys and Aliens.

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The right hand of God Hat band.

Lone Star Concho

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3:10 to Yuma Custom Hat

The 3:10 to Yuma         
The Ben Wade Hat
Crown: Telescope Brim: Kettle curled and Bound
Color Shown: Black and CHocolate
3 Choices for Hatband
 

  • The Right hand of God hatband. Top left has 1 1/4" cowhide with 1" rattlesnake print snakeskin in the middle. Celtic Cross Concho as seen below left.
  • Bottom left: 1 1/4" of black leather with brass tacks and brass lone star side concho.
  • Bottom right hatband: 1 1/4" green leather with floral embossing.

SORRY FOLKS. HATBANDS ARE NOT FOR
SALE SEPARATELY - ONLY WITH OUR HATS.

This adventure drama has all the elements that make a great western movie. Powerful acting, chilling bad guys, a morality play in virtually every scene. Ben Wade's pistol has a cross in the butt, and is referred to as the, "The right hand of God." Well, here's the hat band. The brass lone star concho goes great with our brass tacks hatband, or choose some green embossed leather for a little different look. Make your hat band choice during the checkout process.

At movies end, Crowe gives the best demonstration of a fast-draw-hammer-cock-and-fire, we have ever seen. It would be interesting to know how many takes it took to get it right.

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Russell Crowe as Ben Wade in the excellent re-make of the Classic Western, 3:10 TO YUMA (2007)

 

Note: Our custom Hat bands, like our hats are made by hand. Cuts may be slightly irregular - compared to manufactured hatband's cut and assembled by machine. Each band is unique, well made and will last. Your hat band will be similar but not exactly what is seen here. We are staying true to the cowboy tradition of making your own hat band. If you expect perfection please buy your own mass produced, machine made hat band, or go for a satin ribbon and bow. Thank-you.

Byron McElroy
Crown: Modified Sagebrush
Brim: Kettle Curl with a hand roll Bound
Hatband: 1 1/2" inch satin ribbon with bow.
Color: Undyed Natural with optional light trail dust

A smaller brimmed variation of our Wasey and a cousin of our Born In Blood hat, this was the hat worn by Peter Fonda in that action filled remake of the western classic - 3: 10 to Yuma.

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Price: $410.00 | Shipping: $35.00
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Peter Fonda looks every inch the
Bounty Hunter in 2007s 3:10 to Yuma.

Peter Fonda

Our hats off to Alex Tiberi for
ordering the 1st one!

Order your hat today and receive in time for Easter.

Charley Prince.

5X Fur-felt   Price: $290.00 
Shipping: $35.00 Total: $325.00

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The Charley Prince Hat
Crown: Telescope
Brim
: Hand shaped - Open
Hatband: Custom 1" leather
Color as Shown: Black in 50% Beaver Fur-felt

There are many memorable hats and characters in the remake of the 3:10 to Yuma. None more so then the character Charley Prince.

Often what makes a western unforgettable is the bad guys. Think of the ruthless, threatening nature of the gunfighter character of Wilson (played by Jack Palance) from the great western, Shane. Or the absolute evil of the Indian Shaman from The Missing, with Eric Schweige crafting that devilish BrujoCharley Prince is in fine company or perhaps we should say, devilish company.

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In 2007 Ben Foster created a truly memorable bad-guy in the excellent re-make of the Classic Western, 3:10 TO YUMA  

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Unforgiven hat.

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Sadly, only 3 Westerns have ever
won the Oscar for best film.

  • Cimmaron (1933)
  • Dances with Wolves (1990)
  • Unforgiven (1992)

Little Bill Daggett
Gene Hackman's hat from Unforgiven. (1992)
Crown: Modified Cattleman
Brim
: Hand shaped - Open
Hatband: 1/4" ribbon.
Color Shown: Pecan in 100% Beaver Fur-felt

One of the best western's ever made, Unforgiven, Directed by Clint Eastwood, is also the most decorated Western ever made. Oscar winner for Best Movie, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Editing.

Filmed out by Longview, just an hour or so from where we are in The Last Best West, this western has arguably the best climatic gunfight scene, ever filmed.

We start with an oversized hat body to make our Little Bill hat.

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In 1992 Gene Hackman won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of no-nonsense, tough as they come Sheriff; Little Bill Daggett.

Our hats off to Bill Ingalsbe for
ordering the first one.

The Last of the Dogmen.

We start with an oversized hat body to make this rodeo style cowboy hat, with a gentle hand rolled brim.

5X Fur-felt   Price: $310.00
Shipping: $35.00 Total: $345.00 
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Our hats off to Steve Parker
for ordering the first one.

Last of the Dogmen
Crown: Cattleman
Brim
: Hand shaped - Open
Hatband: Custom 1" leather
Color as Shown: Chocolate in 100% Beaver Fur-felt

Tom Berringer is the loveable rogue of a modern day Bounty Hunter; Lewis Gates, in the entertaining 1995 western; Last of the Dogmen.

The Alberta Rocky Mountains at Banff is the setting for this movie, which was filmed within an hour of where we are in The Last Best West. The acting is good, and the story is intriguing enough to hold your interest, not to mention seeing Barbra Hershey in jeans.

How good is that?

One of the movies star's is a blue Australian Cattle Dog called Zip, who plays Gates' side kick, and as is the case with many side kicks, this dogs a real scene stealer.

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Anyone who's owned an Australian Cattle Dog, knows how smart they are, and the special bond that the breed forms with their owner.

Custom Windstring

Add this custom Stampede/ Wind string to any of our hats for $25.00.

The Conagher
Crown: Modified Sagebrush
Brim: Hand Shaped Open
Hatband: Wrapped 1/4" Custom Wind string
Color as shown: Bone

One of our all time favourite westerns ever - Conagher as portrayed by Sam Elliott captures perfectly the spirit of an old west wrangler. And as a visitor recently reminded us - Conn Conagher carried a Schofield in his holster.

The complications of doing his job and Conagher's moral standards are powerful story lines in this well made film.

Our hat's off to Stacy Allen of Shiloh National Cemetery for ordering the first one - and here's what Mister Allen had to say about his custom 20X Conagher. "My new hat arrived the 27th. It is everything I could hope for and much more. Thanks for creating the special wind string! As is commonly stated down South when one is well satisfied with results, 'I'm standing in tall cotton.'. - Best regards, Stacy.

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Hand-made antler slider (at right) comes with the wind string on the Conagher.

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Sam Elliott is excellent
as Conagher (1991)

Black version above was made as a gift for a Catholic Bishop. We adapted a priests' collar for the hat band. Just another example how we can accommodate most requests.

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What you need to know to order with confidence
On our fact page you'll learn about fur felt, see available colors, and see step by step instructions for measuring your head, ordering your custom hat, shipping, and our refund policy. We also have a section on general hat care, and Cowboy Hat Etiquette. (not to be missed!)
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A Note about Color
Color variances caused by individual computer monitors are beyond our control.
Light colors will reflect heat the best - while dark colors will retain the heat the most - with black being the worst for staying hot (black absorbs sunlight). However black is the most formal color so bowlers and top hats were generally black or dark gray. For the first 15-20 years cowboy hats were marketed - your choice of color was black and about 3 shades of brown. Read all our cowboy hat facts

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Bone Silver Mist Silver Belly Sand Willow Rust Black Charcoal Granite Chocolate Pecan Whiskey Undyed Natural Sahara Dyed Natural

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Boss Spearman
Crown: Modified Cattleman crease
Brim: Hand Rolled Open
Hatband: 1/2" leather.
Color as shown: Granite in pure beaver with light Trail Dust

This is a variation of a Cattleman's crown crease. The brim has a noticeable hand roll with a down turn at the front and back. We've made the hat movie grade with our optional light trail dust. Easily select your options during the checkout process.

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Robert Duvall stars as Boss Spearman in 2003's Open Range.

Henry Fonda

Custom Movie Hats

Charley's Chaps :: Charley's Gun Rig

Open Range
Crown: Modified 3 dent Sagebrush
Brim: Hand Rolled Open
Hatband: Custom 1/2" Leather.
Color shown: 100X Sahara
Movie hat is undyed natural.

Another great western filmed in The Last Best West - Open Range. This is Charley's hat. This is the same basic crown shape as worn by Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp, in My Darling Clementine (1946). This is a classic western movie hat design with more than a 60 year history.

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Costner - Open Range

Kevin Costner is Charley in
Open Range
(2003)

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Clementine
Crown: Modified 3 dent Sagebrush
Brim: Hand Rolled Bound
Hatband: 1/2" Satin with bow.
Color as shown: Granite in 5X Beaver Fur-Felt

This great looking hat is a cousin of the Open Range and a relation of the Wasey, and the Conagher. Smaller brimmed then the Open Range it's also similar to the hat The Duke wore in The Man who shot Liberty Valance.

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Henry Fonda is Wyatt Earp in John Ford's My Darling Clementine. (1946)

Henry Fonda

John Wayne

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The Wyatt
Crown: Modified Cavalry crease
Brim: Hand Rolled Open
Hatband: 1 1/4" Satin with bow.
Color as shown: Black

The same basic shape and design as a traditional 19th century Cavalry Hat. Differences: Centre crease is fatter, side creases are longer and wider, and the brim is flatter with a downturn at the front and back.

Kurt Russell wore this hat as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone.

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Kevin Costner in
Wyatt Earp
(1994)

This actor was the first to portray Wyatt Earp in a movie, in Frontier Marshal, 1939.

Classic Gunfighter hat.

One of our favourite westerns; Hidalgo, has a fast paced story and is an excellent example of how a traditional cowboy would have behaved.

Hidalgo
Crown: Front pinch; Pecan shaped top
Brim: Hand Shaped Bound
Hatband: Custom 1/4" leather braid.
Color: Sand with medium trail dust

This is the classic "Gunfighter Look". Various versions have been worn by actors like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin and Dean Martin. Tell us which one you favor - and we'll shape it, just so.

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Price: $410.00 | Shipping: $35.00
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Alan Ladd as Shane {1953} in one of Hollywood's Best Westerns.

Viggo Mortensen as Frank Hopkins in, Hidalgo. {2004}

Trampas Cowboy Hat Design

Our hats off to Robert Kagan
for ordering the first one.

Trampas
Crown: Modified Canadian
Brim: Hand shaped Open
Hatband: 1 1/4" Custom leather with 6 concho's.
Color shown: Silver Mist in 5X Beaver Fur-felt.

The classic tv series; The Virginian debuted in 1962, and had a great run of 9 years on the small screen. James Drury, Doug McClure, and Lee J. Cobb, were the key actors, and the series writers were very good.

Our Trampas hat is based on the hat worn by the likeable Doug McClure, in the named role. 

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Doug McClure was well cast as an old west Buckaroo with one of the great cowboy names; Trampas, in The Virginian (1962 - 1971).

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Winchester '73
Crown: Modified Canadian
Brim: Hand shaped Bound
Hatband: 1" Satin with Bow
Color as shown: Bone in Pure 100% Beaver Fur-felt.

Jimmy Stewart made a lot of great western's; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Winchester '73 (1950) and The Naked Spur in 1953 are just a few. Jimmy favored this hat design in several of his westerns - and it sure suited him.

Our Hat's off to Gary Spetz for ordering the first one!

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Jimmy Stewart made many excellent westerns, including Bend in the River (1952).

Jimmy Stewart

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Trail Dust
Many customers have been requesting that we dirty up their new hats to make them look trail worn. Pictured at right is a Dusty Augustus - our Augustus with about 2 years worth of trail dust - as if a working cowboy had been wearing it. Click image for larger picture.

We've got three different degrees of trail dust. Light (add $55.00) - medium (add $75.00), and heavy (add $95.00). Light would be what you see at the left on the Dusty Augustus; medium would be like the dusting on the Rossiter; and heavy trail dust looks like our Josey Wales.

This is a similar process that costume designers apply to hats in the movies and t. v. Looks authentic and yer friends will swear yer just got off a trail drive, or a hitch in the Horse Cavalry! You can add trail dust during the check out process - or request it when you call your order in. Orders call toll free: 1-866-207-1909.

Dusty Augustus

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1898 Bow
This was a common bow style of the 19th century. If you prefer this bow style for any of our hats, just request it when your hat details are confirmed via e-mail.

LADIES BOW
Back in the 19th century and the first 4 decades of the 20th century, when hats were a very common part of every day dress, women's hats had the bow on the right hand side. If you want the bow on the right - request it when your hat details are confirmed via e-mail.

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Richard Widmark Cavalry Hat

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Colonel Rossiter   
Richard Widmark Cavalry Hat
Crown: 3 pinch cavalry crease - pecan top.
Brim: Hand worked Open  
Hatband: 1" satin with bow.
Color before soiling: Sand

William Holden and Richard Widmark are the stars of this slow moving western story set near the end of the Civil War. Not a lot of action in this flick, but some very interesting hats. If you watch the movie, you may find it hard to believe that any soldier would wear such a filthy falling-apart-hat. Then you realized a hat such as this was the Colonel's badge of courage, dirty yes, but a comrade that lived through the horrors of the war, and survived. Just like Widmark's character Col. Tom Rossiter.

The hat ships clean and unsoiled. The hat at left has our medium soiling on it. Make your choice during the checkout process.

Add a top quality cavalry cord with acorns for 15 dollars. It slides over the existing satin ribbon and bow - like they did back in the day.

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We have 3 Levels of Soiling - click for description.

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Richard Widmark as Col. Tom Rossiter in the 1966 western melodrama, Alvarez Kelly.

Our Hat's off to Kevin Kilman for
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Young Gus like's his Rossiter just fine.

FOLKS! CAVALRY CORDS AND HAT BANDS ARE NOT SOLD SEPARATELY - ONLY WITH OUR HATS.

Col. Yorke Cavalry Hat.

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Add a top quality cavalry cord with acorns for 15 dollars. It slides over the existing satin ribbon and bow - like they did back in the day.

John Wayne Cavalry Hat

The hat above has been aged to the point that it looks like it's from the 19th century. Less dramatic soiling is available.

Col. Yorke
John Wayne Cavalry Hat
Crown: front pinch; "diamond" shaped crown top
Brim: Hand worked Open upturn at the front
Hatband: 1 1/2" satin with bow.
Color New hat at left is Silver Mist.
Bottom hat when new: Sand

Immortalized in the John Ford Cavalry Trilogy - this is the same look sported by John Wayne in those three great movies: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; Fort Apache, and Rio Grande.

This was Wayne's favourite hat and he wore it over, and over again in his movies. Even as a Big Game Hunter/Guide, with a young Sophia Loren, as they searched for a treasure city in Legend of the Lost, (1957).

The crown has the unique "diamond" design, and the brim has been curled up - can be curled higher or lower as you wish. 

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The hats last appearance was in Rio Bravo (1959} where Wayne wears  this look as Sheriff John T. Chance.

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Wayne is Hondo. (1953)

The Dunson custom movie hat.

Wayne is Ethan Edwards in
The Searchers
{1956}

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The Dunson            
Crown: Telescope
Brim: Hand curled (Red River Version) Bound
Hatband: Custom 1" leather.
Color: Black

John Wayne favored this crown shape in many of his best westerns. By changing the brim shape it's easy to show several different looks of the same basic hat design.

We start with an oversized hat body for our custom hat, and you can choose your brim working. The Duke's look from The Searchers; Red River; or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Make your choice during the check out process.

These three classic westerns would easily make most peoples top ten western movies ever, and the acting job Wayne does in The Searchers, may be his best on film.

And it's easy to see where the inspiration for Angie Dickinson's character in Rio Bravo came from. Just listen to the fresh talking Tess Millay played by Joanne Dru in Red River and you'll know.

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John Wayne as Tom Dunson in
Red River
(1948}

Tom Donophon was the real
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
. {1962}

Custom  Western Hat.

If you think you are seeing the same hat as the 3:10 to Yuma hat - above - you are. The Quirt and the Yuma are very close with the dimensions of the Yuma slightly smaller. Another illustration of how many hats in today's westerns, are variations of hats seen in movies since the early days of cinema.

Was there ever a better name in a
western movie than Quirt Evans?

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The Quirt
Crown: Telescope
Brim: Pencil roll; Hand shaped Bound
Hatband: 1" satin with bow.
Color as shown: Black

For our money one of the top 20 western movies ever made, Angel and the Bad man show cases big John as the deadly pistol fighter Quirt Evans.

This hat style is also the one worn by Will Smith as James West in Wild Wild West - brims just rolled a little different. We'll fashion it either way for you.  All hat details are confirmed within 1 business day of your order being placed.

Inset hat was a customer request for a contrasting bound brim and hat band in white satin. This was a favourite look for gamblers in western movies.

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John Wayne and Gail Russell in The Angel and the Badman {1947}

 

Will Smith played James West in a fanciful western: Wild Wild West {1999}

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How to make an Old West Character Cowboy Hat
Now that you've seen our great hats we're sure you'll want your own Custom Hat - so what are you going to do with your old one? It'd be a pity to relegate it to discard. Our solution is to rotate it out and make a great Character Hat.

Years ago I read a story about how Tom Mix used to crease and work all his custom hats himself in the shower. So I decided to take his advice and am more than pleased with the results. The amount of time it takes is up to you. I had the Ellsworth fashioned in less than 5 minutes - then a further half hour fine tuning the look. The steps I went through are pretty simple. Click for the rest of the story

Jim Beaver shines as Ellsworth in HBO's Deadwood.

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Longfellow and other gunfighters wear a Last Best Cowboy Hat.

Dodge City Peace Commission photo of 1876
Seated Left to right: Charley Bassett, Wyatt Earp, Frank McLain, Neal Brown.

Back Row from Left: Longfellow (recruited in 2007 and standing in for W. H. Smith), Luke Short, Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon.

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