It’ll drive a cowboy crazy
It’ll drive the man insane
And he’ll sell off everything he owns
Just to pay to play her game
And a broken home and some broken bones
Is all he’ll have to show
For all the years that he spent chasin’
this dream they call Rodeo
-Garth Brooks-
Rodeo Cowboy Hats
Custom Rodeo Cowboy Hats
hand made modern cowboy hats by the last best west
Every year at the National Finals Rodeo and The Calgary Stampede many of the cowboys competing are wearing our hats. A cowboy needs a good hat and we are proud to make some of the best working Cowboy hats available anywhere. Professional rodeo champions wear our high performance working hats. Get one yourself and then you will know why we call it The Last Best Cowboy Hat!
For more information go to our fact page and you’ll learn all about our great cowboy, western hats and fedoras and how we do it. We also have information about our beaver fur felt, available colors, hat sizing , as well as some sections on general hat care, and Cowboy Hat Etiquette. Lots of information to go through, if you are so inclined!
We know Rodeos. We know Cowboys. And we know rodeo cowboy hats! For most hat styles we can do up to a 6″ (inch) crown and a 5″ brim.
Being a Cowboy ain’t so much what yer do – it is who you are. ©
Line Dancer Rodeo Cowboy hat
Line Dancer
Custom hand-made Rodeo Cowboy Hat
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.
The 1990s was when denim really entered the traditional workplace and stores couldn’t stock enough rodeo cowboy hats, boots and jeans to keep up with demand. This hat style reminds us of those days.
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!
Made to order. Made to last.
Made in America by the Cowboys at The Last Best West.
The Life of a Rodeo Cowboy
Every year hundreds of Rodeo Cowboys 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.
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.
Shown here is legendary Rodeo Star – Yakima Canutt displaying some of his buckles and trophies – circa 1920. Yakima went on to be a silent movie star and perhaps the world’s first stuntman and action director. Canutt got his nick-name, at one of his first Rodeos in Washington State, when the Ring Announcer told the audience, “Here comes that young cowboy from Yakima.“ More about Yak Canutt
These current and former professional cowboys wear our rodeo cowboy hats
Jesse Bail Joe Gunderson Jason Havens Joey Bell Jr. Charley Crawford Jeff Willert |
Cody Taton Chuck Schmidt Ardie Maier Bobby Welsh Kelly Timberman Chad Ferley |
Jeff Davis Cimmaron Gerke Cleve Schmidt Kanin Asay Tom Reeves Andy Martinez |
Davey Shields Jr. Kyle Daines Todd Herzog |
Our signed Nashville Stars Ladies Line Dancer hat from our trip to Nashville in November of 2013. We had a grand time!
