beaver fur felt Archives - The Last Best West

1890s Cavalry Hat

$355.00 – $770.00

1890s Cavalry Hat, an authentic old west cavalry hat custom made by the last best west This 1890s cavalry hat is the classic look sported by the US Cavalry in the later quarter of the 19th Century. Add a top quality cavalry cord with acorns for 20 dollars. It slides over the existing satin ribbon and bow - like they did back in the day.

Crown: 5 inches 3 pinch cavalry
Brim: 4 inches Hand worked - Open brim edge
Color Shown: Sand
Hatband: Satin Ribbon cavalry tied

Angelica Custom Handmade Hat

$390.00 – $810.00

Angelica Custom Handmade hat - This is our take on the Angelica Hat from the 4th adventure for The Pirates of the Caribbean{2011} This distinctive wide brimmed hat is quite a looker, and Angelica under it doesn't hurt either! We have done our best to duplicate the subtle little warts of this hat design. OK so the hatband and bound edge is not the same as the movie hat. Friends of The Last Best West know we don’t even try to duplicate a movie hatband, unless it is simple leather or a satin ribbon and bow.

Crown:Pilgrim
Color:Black
Brim:1" Kettle Curl – hand rolled –Bound
Hatband:3" cloth with round buckle.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Blue Steel Custom Hat

$400.00 – $810.00

Blue Steel Custom Hat - Many famous old time actors got their start during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and appeared in all the B-Westerns and Serials that they could get. At the height of the Great Depression 1 in 3 men didn't have a job and in tough times any pay day is a good pay day.

Crown: 3 pinch B-Movie crease.
Color: Charcoal Gray
Brim: Kettle Curl Bound edge Hand rolled
Hatband: 1 inch satin with 1898 bow.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Boss of the Town Hat

$355.00 – $740.00

Boss of the Town Hat - The original Cowboy Hat from 1865 Our Boss of the Town Hat with an open or rounded crown is similar to the one worn by Wyatt Earp in 1993s excellent western film, Tombstone. The Texas flat crown version is more of a gaucho, or South American look. We will shape it either of these ways, enter your choice below as you select your hat details and options.

CROWN: 4" inches
BRIM: 4" inches
Available in all colors
Hatband: 1" inch grosgrain ribbon and bow.
Crown: Open OR Texas Flat
Brim: Flat with bound edge, or pencil rolled
Colors Shown: Black, Pecan

Broken Trail Movie Hat

$380.00 – $780.00

Broken trail movie hat - Our take on Robert Duvall's, Prentice Ritter, movie hat from the miniseries, Broken Trail - {2006}

CROWN: 5 inches
BRIM: 4"
Color Shown: Dyed Natural
Crown: Modified 3 Pinch Cavalry Crease
Brim: pencil rolled-open
Hatband: 1/2" twisted leather

Bronc Buster Custom Hat

$355.00 – $795.00

Bronc Buster Custom Hat - Young horses need to be broke, and that means riding them to a standstill – until they start accepting a man on their back and respond to the reins. It takes a lot longer than 8 seconds to saddle break a young mount, and the cowboy that can do that commands top wages on any spread he wants to work on.

Crown:Modified Cattleman Crease
Color:Black.
Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband:3/4″ satin with bow. Blue contrasting bound edge.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Bull Rider Custom Hat

$380.00 – $810.00

Bull Rider Custom Hat - A sixteen time World Champion 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.”

Crown:Canadian
Color:Chocolate
Brim: Hand Curled and bound
Hatband:1″ satin ribbon w/bow. Contrasting pecan bound edge.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

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Bull Rider Ready to Ship Hat

This is the classic Bull Rider crown worn by those incredibly gutsy fellas that ride the bulls at the rodeo's all around the world. As opposed to the fellas who sling the bull!

Crown: Canadian
Color: Chocolate in 20X (50%) Beaver Fur Felt has light trail dust
Brim: Hand Curled and bound
Hatband:1″ satin ribbon w/bow. Contrasting pecan bound edge.
SIZE: 7 3/8

THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in LIGHTLY used condition. Final sale.

Butch Cassidy Handmade Bowler

$355.00 – $770.00

Butch Cassidy Handmade Bowler - Our Butch Cassidy Bowler is an example of likely the most common headware in the mid to late 1800s in North America. A hat style like our Butch Cassidy Handmade Bowler was worn by all classes of people from butchers in New York to politicians in Washington along with the western Outlaw, Butch Cassidy in Wyoming and later, Bolivia.

Crown: 4 1/2" inches OPEN: Round Uncreased
Brim: 2 1/4" inches Kettle Curl Bound
Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with bow
Color shown: Black

Captain Call Handmade Hat

$355.00 – $770.00

A custom cowboy movie hat from Lonesome Dove (1989) Our take on the hat style worn by Tommy Lee Jones The Tommy Lee Jones cowboy hat from Lonesome Dove. The Captain Call Handmade Hat is like the character simple, unrefined, and basic. A classic Boss of the Plains with a heavy dip front and back on the bound brim.

Crown: 6 inches
Brim: 4"
Crown: Open - uncreased
Brim: Bound Hand shaped dipped front and back.
Hatband: 1" grosgrain ribbon with bow
Color shown: Black in 20X fur-felt
hats ship in 6-8 weeks.
Personalized with your name inside the crown
Hatband not sold separately

Champie Old West Hat

$400.00 – $815.00

Champie Old West Hat - a classic over-sized cowboy hat hand made by the last best west This is an early crown treatment from the early decades of the 20th century. Hat makers started offering pre-creased crowns and shaped brims after they saw the most common way the working Cowboys had of creasing their hats. Our Champie Old West Hat is one big hat and if you want great sun and weather protection this hat will fit the bill.

Crown: 5" inches "Champie" Crease
Brim: 5" inches Kettle Curl Bound
Color: Sand
Hatband: 1 inch satin with bow.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Chute Boss Custom Hat

$380.00 – $785.00

Chute Boss Custom Hat - 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.

Crown:Cattleman Crease
Color:Sahara
Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
Hatband:1/2″ satin with bow, with matching bound edge
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Cimarron Custom Movie Hat

$355.00 – $770.00

Cimarron Custom Movie Hat - Our version of the Yancey Cravat hat from the 1931 best picture winner. This is a very versatile hat style. The crown is a modified tycoon with a big kettle curl and roll to the brim. Musicians seem to favor our Cimarron Custom Movie Hat, and it looks great with a good suit of clothes. Performers hat, Dress Hat, or wear it on the range and impress the critters. What more do you need in a hat!

Crown: 4 1/2" inches Modified Tycoon
Brim: 3 1/2" Kettle Curl, hand rolled
Color Shown: bone
Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
Personalized with your name inside the crown
Musician Favorite

Col Yorke Cavalry Hat

$355.00 – $785.00

Col Yorke Cavalry Hat - Our version of this classic hat from the horse westerns of the 40s and 50s. The Cavalry trooper was immortalized in the John Ford Cavalry Trilogy - and this is the same hat that you can see in almost every scene from those three great movies: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; Fort Apache, and Rio Grande.

Crown: 4 1/4 inches
Brim: 4"
Color Shown: Silver Mist.
Crown: 4 corner "diamond" shaped crown.
Brim: Hand worked-Open upturn at the front.
Hatband: 1" Satin with Bow.

Cole Jackson Cowboy Hat

$355.00 – $810.00

Cole Jackson Cowboy Hat - The upswept crown on this hat is a classic look sported in many westerns throughout film history. This hat style is similar to The Tristan, Dodge City, Hidalgo and others!

Color Shown: Sand.
Crown: modified 3 pinch cavalry.
Brim: Hand shaped-Bound.
Hatband: 1/2 inch ribbon tied cavalry style.

Colonel Rossiter

$355.00 – $785.00

Our Colonel Rossiter Cavalry Hat - from the 1966 western melodrama, Alvarez Kelly. The hat ships clean and unsoiled. Inset hat is shown with optional heavy trail dust.

Crown: 4 1/2 inches
Brim: 4"
Color Shown: Sand
Crown:modified 3 pinch cavalry crease - pecan top.
Brim: Hand worked-Open.
Hatband: 1" Satin with Bow.

Cutter Custom Handmade Hat

$410.00 – $810.00

Cutter Custom Handmade Hat - This big hat has a 6 inch crown and a 4 3/4″ brim width. This hat is a cousin of our Little Bill hat from that Oscar Winning movie by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven.

Crown:modified cattleman with side dent
Color:Black
Brim: Hand Shaped -Open
Hatband:1/2″ fur-felt self buckle. With feather.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Dakota Fancy Custom Hat

$385.00 – $810.00

Dakota Fancy Custom Hat - Custom Rodeo Hat is dressed up with a distinctive Indian motif on the cloth hat band and bound brim edge.

Crown: Cattleman Crease
Color:Black
Brim: Hand Shaped and Bound
Hatband:1″ Cloth with Indian Motif: Matching cloth on bound edge.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Georgia Devil Cowboy Hat

$410.00 – $810.00

Georgia Devil Cowboy Hat - This Charley Daniels hat style has the largest dimensions we can make: A 6 inch crown and a 5 inch brim. Some have a bigger brim dip front and back, some more of a brim curl, tell us which you favor and we will shape it just so.

CROWN HEIGHT: 6"
BRIM: 5"
Color Shown: Silver belly and Charcoal.
Crown: modified cattleman.
Brim: hand rolled-open.
Hatband: 1" leather with nickel concho's and buckle.
OR 1/4 inch cavalry ribbon
Musician Favorite

Hondo Custom Cowboy Hat

$355.00 – $785.00

Hondo Custom Cowboy Hat - Here's another great western made from a popular Louis L'Amour story. The movie, Hondo, was released in 1953, and was based on a short story by L'Amour, called, The Gift of Cochise. Our take on the Hondo Custom Cowboy Hat has that classic diamond shaped crown, with a 4 inch brim for great sun and all weather protection.

Crown: 4 1/4" inches 4 sided Cavalry
Brim 4" inches Dipped front and back Open
Color Shown: Sahara with optional light Trail Dust
Hatband: 1" satin ribbon and bow Shown with optional yellow cavalry cord.

Ike Clanton Movie Hat

$355.00 – $780.00

Our take on the Ike Clanton Movie Hat - from Tombstone {1993} The 4 dent military style crown was a common crown treatment in the old west. This hat with the pushed up front was worn by Stephen Lang as the cowardly drunk, Ike Clanton, in one of Hollywood's all time great western's - Tombstone. You may want to add one of our horse hair hat bands to complete the look.

Crown: 4 1/2" inches modified 4 soft dent military.
Brim: 4" inches Hand shaped front pushed up - Bound
Color Shown: Whiskey
Hatband: 1 inch satin with bow

King Of The Sagebrush Hat

$400.00 – $810.00

King Of The Sagebrush Handmade Hat - A client had us take our Wild Bill and put a homberg dent in the crown, changed the hatband and voila an instant B-western Classic!

Crown: Homburg Dent
Color: Undyed Natural.
Brim: Kettle Curl Bound Edge Hand shaped
Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with 1898 bow.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Lady Custom Movie Hat

$355.00 – $770.00

Lady Custom Movie Hat - our take on the Sharon Stone hat from The Quick and the Dead (1995) Hat has a variation of a cattleman’s crease, with a gentle hand roll to the brim. Version shown has a 1/4" satin ribbon and bow, tied off Cavalry style. You can add a horsehair hatband at checkout for that extra special look! Select your options easily as you build your hat below.

CROWN HEIGHT: 5" inches
BRIM: 4"
Crown:Modified Cattleman
Color:Black
Brim:hand rolled –Open
Hatband: 1/4" satin ribbon/cavalry tied on left.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Lady Ranger Custom Hat

$375.00 – $785.00

Lady Ranger Custom Hat - We made this Rocky Mountain Ranger with optional light trail dust for a lady cowboy ranching near Medicine Hat. Order it with or without trail dust. Easily make your selection during the checkout process.

Crown: 3 pinch Cavalry
Color: Dyed Natural
Brim: Gentle hand roll –Open
Hatband: Custom 1/2" 2 braid leather tied at the back.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Last Stand at Saber River Hat

$355.00 – $780.00

Our take on the Last Stand at Saber River Hat The Paul Cable Cowboy Hat, worn by Tom Selleck in the TNT TV Movie from 1997. This great looking hat is shown in our BONE color with medium trail dust. Select your options as you put your order together below.

Crown: 6" inches Modified Sagebrush
Brim: 4" inches Hand Rolled with Bound Edge
Color Shown: Bone with optional medium trail dust
Hatband: 1/4" ribbon tied cavalry style With optional wind string

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore Hat

$355.00 – $780.00

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore Hat - This hat is a higher crowned variation of a cavalry slouch hat, with an unbound brim, dating back to the mid 1800s. We have a 1 inch satin ribbon and bow for the hatband with the cavalry cord slid over top. The crown shape makes this hat a cousin to our Little J hat.

Crown: 6 inches
Brim 4 inches
Color Shown: Black with optional light trail dust.
Crown: Modified Slouch.
Brim: Hand rolled-Open.
Hatband: Satin Ribbon and bow with optional Cavalry Cord.

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Line Dancer Ready to Ship Hat

Line Dancer Ready to Ship Hat - Pure Beaver Size 7 3/8 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.

- - CROWN: 4 1/4" Modified Canadian
  - BRIM: 4 3/4" Hand Curled and bound
  - Color: Sand
  - Hatband: 1″ satin ribbon w/bow.
  - Size 7 3/8 with Burgundy Hat Liner

THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in like-new condition. Final sale.

Line Dancer Rodeo Hat

$385.00 – $810.00

Line Dancer Rodeo Hat - hand made by the last best west 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.

- - CROWN: 4 1/4" Modified Canadian
  - BRIM: 4 3/4" Hand Curled and bound
  - Color: bone
  - Hatband: 1″ satin ribbon w/bow.
  - Personalized with your name inside the crown

Line Rider Custom Hat

$385.00 – $785.00

Line Rider Custom Hat - Cowboys spend weeks sometimes months, in a line shack, riding the periphery during the day, looking for strays and checking fence.

Crown:Fat Dent Cattleman
Color:Dyed Natural
Brim: Hand Curled and Open
Hatband:1/2″ satin with bow. Matching bound edge
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Magdalena Custom Handmade Hat

$380.00 – $815.00

Magdalena Custom Handmade Hat - Our version of the hat from The Missing. (2003) The Missing is powerful film making that has a riveting story and one of the most evil bad guys on film; the Brujo. Not to mention the acting excellence of the cast. This is one intense western, with powerful themes and a great ending.

Crown:Texas Flat
Color:Pecan
Brim:Slight hand roll – front dip –Bound
Hatband:1 1/2" satin ribbon and bow on the right.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Mattie Ross Custom Hat

$375.00 – $770.00

Mattie Ross Custom Hat - Our version of the Mattie Ross Hat - From 2010's True Grit. Not too much to this hat, a traditional Boss of the Plains with a short crown and brim.

Crown:Open – uncreased
Color:Pecan
Brim:Flat–Bound
Hatband:1" Black satin ribbon/with bow on the left.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Money Round Custom Hat

$390.00 – $785.00

Money Round Custom Hat - 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.

Crown: Cattleman"s Crease
Color:Bone
Brim: Hand Curled and Open
Hatband:1/2″ cloth with buckle.
Personalized with your name inside the crown

Nat Love Handmade Hat

$400.00 – $810.00

Nat Love Handmade Hat - Nat Love was one of the first African American Cowboys. He learned the cowboy's trade on Texas ranches, and in 1876 he won virtually every event at the Deadwood 4th of July Rodeo.

Color Shown: Bone.
Crown: Off kilter telescope.
Brim: hand shaped front pushed up-Open.
Hatband: 3/4" black leather with optional windstring.
Crown: 4 3/4"
Brim: 5"

Nevada Smith Movie Hat

$375.00 – $780.00

Our take on the Nevada Smith Movie Hat, worn by Steve McQueen. Brian Keith plays the world-wise mentor who teaches McQueen to handle a pistol, and sets him up with the skills needed to go after Malden's gang. Good story, good entertainment and some sharp looking hats.

CROWN HEIGHT: 5"
BRIM: 4"
Color Shown: Sand
Crown: Modified Cattleman
Brim: Hand worked-Open
Hatband: Twisted leather lace

Open Range Cowboy Hat

$380.00 – $785.00

Open Range Cowboy Hat - Our version of the Charley Waite hat worn by Kevin Costner This is a classic old west design with a sagebrush crown. 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. Charley Cowboy Hat

Crown: 6 inches
Brim: 4"
Color Shown: undyed natural same as movie hat
Crown: Modified 3 dent Sagebrush.
Brim: Hand Rolled-Open.
Hatband: Custom 1/2" Leather.

Orry Main Custom Hat

$375.00 – $770.00

Orry Main Custom Hat - The 1980s were the decade of the mini-series, and the civil war era North and South was one of the best. Patrick Swayze played the young hero, pining for the abused married woman, played by the beautiful Leslie-Anne Down. Show hat is an undyed natural color.

Crown: 6 inches Slouch
Brim 4" inches Hand rolled-Open
Color Shown: Silver Mist
Hatband: Cavalry Cord