Welcome to The Last Best West™
Custom Cowboy Hats and Leather
We are designers and makers of custom cowboy hats and leather. And for the past 25 years we’ve reproduced classic hats and leather from the 19th and early decades of the 20th century. In our catalog you will find custom cowboy hats and leather all made by hand and in the USA. From classic 19th-century Western hats and cowboy leather, to modern takes on legendary movie styles, we bring history and craftsmanship together. Our custom cowboy hats and leather are made in America, to order and to last. shop all products
Last Best West custom hats ship in 18-22 weeks and our custom hand-made leather in 3 – 5 weeks
Email us if you need something faster, we may be able to help.
CUSTOM COWBOY HATS AND LEATHER FROM THE LAST BEST WEST™
We promise to make no two custom pieces exactly the same – and our originality and individuality bring clients back time and again to our order catalogue. Purchase one of our custom made hats and you will receive the same quality and workmanship that is worn by more than a dozen of the world’s premier rodeo cowboy’s riding today.
“Being a cowboy ain’t so much about what you do, it’s who you are.”
Production Companies, Politicians, National Security Advisors, Musicians, Writers, Cartoonists, Artists, Athletes, Soldiers, and lots of every day folk love our hats, and we hope you will as well. Questions? email us :: Testimonials
A cowboy hat will protect your head from the weather, eyes from the sun, and will help prevent sun stroke.
Find Your Perfect Cowboy Memory at The Last Best West™
Like all clothing the type, shape, and color of your hat defines your personality. It’s highly unlikely that any other single piece of clothing carries the mystic that a quality, distinctively shaped cowboy hat does.
We make museum quality hats and custom leather and our hard wearing cowboy gear is renowned for its on trail performance. ~ Testimonials With over 190 hat styles in our catalog, even the pickiest cowboy should find their perfect style and fit!
Beans in the pot…bacon’s in the pan…get ’em while they’re hot…eat ’em while you can….chuck wagon cook’s call to supper in the old west.
Take your time, have a look around, there’s lots to see in the Last Best West™.
TESTIMONIAL
From: Wes Tyler
Sent: October 16, 2025 8:07 AM
To: The last best west Service
Subject: Classic Bowler
Hello, I thought you’d like to see how my outfit turned out with the bowler.
Thank you very much.
Wes Tyler
WHAT DOES CUSTOM MEAN?
Last Best West Cowboy Hats
Clients have the freedom to switch hatbands between hat styles, and request different crown and brim dimensions. As well you get your name stencilled on the sweatband inside the hat.
Last Best West Leather
We make our Hand Made Holsters, belts and Indian Rifle Sheaths to fit your firearms. In most cases we are able to custom fit our holsters for almost any firearm, and make our gun and cartridge belts to your waist and cartridge size. Enter your info in the comments box during checkout.
You’ve owned the rest now wear the best!
Our Cowboy Hat Colors
Shop All Products ~ Cowboy Hats ~ Hat Care ~ 10 Questions
End of the Line Fine Cowboy Hats
Crown and Brim Measurements
Our galloping buckaroo logo is on all our last best west hat liners.
The hats you see online are our standard hats, which have specific crown heights and brim widths to maximize the look of that particular style or hat design. If you wish to change the crown or brim enter any changes in the Production Notes section as you build your hat.
Hats are all hand made so hat and brim measurements are all approximate. The largest hat we can make has a ~ six (6″) inch crown and a ~ five (5″) brim.
Any hat with a brim width of more than 4 inches we must start with an over sized hat body, which adds a little to the cost. Most of our cowboy hats have a crown height between 5 and 6 inches and a brim width of 3 1/2 to 4 inches.
Hat styles with a wider brim include The Wasey, Quigley, Everett Hitch, Desperado, Blue Duck, Hoss, Blondie, Little J, The Dunson, Last of the Dogmen, Wild Bill, all our B-Movie hats, and many of our Custom Rodeo Hats
Cowboy History
Back in the 1880s cowboys earned a dollar a day if they were good, and the luxury of a gun belt and holster or some other fine leather work might often be determined by their own abilities as a leather worker.
Most every ranch or outfit had at least one person skilled with working leather – after all saddles, rein’s, bridles, and the such all needed maintaining, repairing and replacing. And any cowboy skilled with leather just added to his value as a ranch hand.
People were much more self-sufficient then, and you couldn’t always ride to town and get what you wanted or needed. So you made it – or paid a neighbor who was skilled to do it. Or you bartered your services for his.
We try to stay as true to the old west makers as we can, and have incorporated what we found works over years of wear and use.
Have a Vintage or Collectible Long Arm?
Medicine Bear Rifle Sheath :: $633.00
a spectacular soft Indian rifle sheath hand made by the last best west
Our Medicine Bear Rifle Sheath is a traditional Indian Rifle sheath with a medicine bear motif (on both sides) in a beautiful warm tobacco color. Just about every family has a firearm heirloom passed down through the generations.
Our beautiful hand made Indian rifle sheaths are just the thing to show and protect your valued long arm. Any fine rifle deserves a spectacular sheath. see all our classic soft leather rifle sheaths
In person the cowboys were mostly medium-sized men… quick and wiry, and as a rule very good-natured; in fact, it did not pay to be anything else. In character, their like never was or will be again. – Teddy Blue Abbott; Cowboy 1882
1880s buckeroo
Cowboy Wisdom
Cowboy Ten Commandments
Just one God
Honor yer Ma and Pa
No telling tales or gossipin’
Git ye to Sunday meetin’
Put nothin’ before God
No foolin’ with another fella’s gal
No killin’
Watch yer mouth
Don’t take what ain’t yers
Don’t be hankerin’ for yer buddy’s gear
Authentic Wanted Posters and Old West Badges
Our three lines of original poster art (Old West Posters, Authentic Wanted Posters, and Legends of the West) can be seen all over the world, from homesteads and club houses to fancy Dance Halls and Saloons. Our ever popular old west badges are authentic in size and weight to the origins, and are a favorite of re-enactors and are often seen in western films and series.
