- Crown: Open
- Color: Granite
- Brim:Â 1" kettle-curl - Bound
- Hatband: 1" Satin with 1898 bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
Cowboy Hats from The Last Best West
The Last Best Cowboy Hat – hand made quality hats. Our custom western hats are made the old west way – one at a time, starting with the best fur-felt hat body available – made in the USA – and fashion as fine a custom western hat as you can find.
ABOUT OUR BEAVER FUR-FELT HAT BODIES
Beaver Fur Felt is dense and virtually waterproof. It consists of beaver and/or rabbit/hare fur blended with felt to produce a material that lasts 5-10 times longer than wool-felt. A fine Beaver and Beaver blend fur-felt hat can be re- shaped numerous times, with just a steam source and a bit of patience. And is the premier material from which to manufacture fine hats.
As a general rule of thumb if a hat maker only describes their hat bodies as fur-felt, chances are it’s rabbit or Hare. Hat makers who use beaver fur-felt are proud of it and will state so. We sell 3 quality beaver blends of fine western hats – 5X, 20X and 100X. 5X is a blend of about 5% beaver with rabbit and felt. Our 20X is 50% beaver and our 100X is pure 100% beaver fur-felt.
GENERAL PRICING
– 5X – 335.00 5% BEAVER HAT BODY
– 20X – 460.00 50% BEAVER HAT BODY
– 100X – 750.00 100% BEAVER HAT BODY
– Prices for individual hat styles will vary
For an all weather hat – you can’t beat a pure beaver cowboy hat. Light, stiff, and fabulous looking it’ll shed what ever comes it’s way.Â
The Last Best Cowboy Hat. One of a kind Fur-Felt Art.
Made to order. Made to last. Made in America.
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Stumpy Custom Handmade Hat - You see lot's of these open crown style cowboy hats from the early days of film right through the modern era. Variations of this hat design were worn by Walter Brennan as Stumpy in Rio Bravo {1959}, as well as Dan Blocker as Hoss on the long running TV series; Bonanza. A unique looking hat nowadays, but a century or more ago it was a very common hat style, being just an oversized cousin of the classic Boss of the Plains.
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4 Corners Fedora Hat - Our Cavalry Fedora We decided to put our own twist on a fedora, and imagined what an old west cavalry trooper might like to wear on furlough. Bowlers are certainly one choice, but we imagined something a little different.
- Hatband: 2" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: 4 corner cavalry
- Brim: hand shaped Open
- Color: Silver Mist
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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This is our take on the Drake the Ripper Hat - The hat worn by actor Jerome Flynn as Victorian Detective Sergeant, Bennet Drake, in the BBC drama, Ripper Street. It has a long modified cavalry shape to the short crown,with a small pencil roll on the bound brim. This BBC drama hit the screen in 2012 and the BBC drama is set in 1889 London, 6 months after the Jack the Ripper murders.
- Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: modified cavalry
- Brim: 1/2 inch pencil roll, hand shaped Bound
- Color: Black
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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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
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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
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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
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Stockman Custom Handmade Hat - Always on the lookout for the superstars of the 4 legged set, Stockmen do a lot of traveling in their search for that special bucking horse or bull.
- Crown: Modified Gus Crease
- Color:Charcoal
- Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
- Hatband:1″ satin w/bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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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
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Rodeo Royale Custom Hat - These hats were made for young ladies competing for Rodeo Queen titles at various rodeo’s around the West. One hat shown is in black with ostrich hide, with bound edge. The other hats shown have hair on hide, buck stitch edge. Choose, ostrich, or light, or dark hair on hide as the feature hide on the brim, during the check out process.
- Crown: Cattleman Crease
- Color:Black
- Brim: Hand Curled and Bound
- Hatband: 1/2″ leather with buckle.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Jolan Custom Dress Hat - More of a Town Hat Design, the Jolan has a small brim and was a popular look with people of substance in the West of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Essentially the same design as the Champie and the smaller brim makes it a great look for women.
- Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with bow.
- Crown: Creased
- Brim: Kettle Curl Bound
- Color: Black
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Our version of the classic Wild Wild West Cowboy Hat has a Texas Flat crown and a wide 3 3/4" brim. Click on the tabs below to see our hat options and colors.
- Color Shown: Sahara
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches Texas Flat
- Brim: 3 3/4" inches hand shaped and rolled-Open
- Hatband: 1" custom leather with buffalo side concho
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Hays Cooper Cowboy Hat - Our take on the Hays Cooper hat worn by Chuck Norris in Walker, Texas Ranger. In 1993 Chuck Norris took on the role of Walker, Texas Ranger and over the next 9 years it was one of the most popular shows on TV. During the 6th season an old west Texas Ranger character was developed over a couple of hours of a double episode. This was the hat style Hays Cooper wore.
- Color shown: Pecan in 100X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- Crown: 5 1/2" inches modified sagebrush
- Brim: 4" hand shaped with a slight pencil roll
- Hatband: 1Â inch grosgrain ribbon and bow
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Mrs. Boss Cowboy hat in Pure beaver belly. We've modified one of the hat styles worn by Nicole Kidman, as Lady Sarah Ashley, or Mrs. Boss in the epic film Australia, to give it more of an outback flair. Ours has a wider brim with a drover style to it. Shown in 100% natural color Belly Beaver fur felt. Originally the term "silver belly" referred to the belly fur of the beaver. By the mid 20th century it came to only identify a specific color. Belly Beaver Fur Felt is the thickest and densest of the beaver hat bodies. Virtually waterproof, it consists of 100% belly beaver fur blended with felt to produce a strong hat body very soft to the hand.
For hat style you can go with the Mrs. Boss or any hat we currently make. Any hat, any style – same price. Hat Catalog
- PRICE: $1190.00
- Choose the Mrs. Boss or pick any hat style from our catalog - put your hat style selection in the PRODUCTION NOTES section below
- Color shown: Natural in pure Beaver Belly Fur Felt
- Belly Fur felt is available in natural colors or darker only
- Mrs. Boss Crown: 4 1/4" inch
- Brim: 3 1/2" hand shaped drover style
- Hatband: 1 1/2 inch antique ivory grosgrain ribbon and bow with matching bound edge
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Coogan Cowboy Hat style is the COOGAN, worn by Clint Eastwood in 1968s, Coogan's Bluff With the world being scared into sheltering in place over the month of April 2020 we thought we would give our clients and friends a distraction to help the time go by. A contest to engage the imagination and powers of deduction, along with our love of movies.WE HAVE A WINNER! Well, we have been suitably humbled...this contest was posted at 1:42 April 4 2020 and in just 17 minutes(!) Ben Ellis posted the winning answer. Our mystery hat was the hat style worn by Clint Eastwood as Walt Coogan, in 1968s Coogan's Bluff. Thanks to everyone that played along and stay healthy!
- Color shown: Silver Belly in 100X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- Crown: 6" inches modified Canadian
- Brim: 3 1/2" hand shaped and rolled brim
- Hatband: brown leather with a nickle buckle set
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Sale!Custer Hat - READY TO SHIP Civil War Cowboy Hat in Pure Beaver (100X) THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in like-new condition. Final sale.
- Crown: 4" inches soft pecan top
- Brim: 4 3/4"
- Size: 7 1/2 Hand shaped, center right pushed up
- 100X beaver fur felt
- Color Shown: Rust with black bound edge
- Hatband: 1" inch black Satin with 1898 Bow.
- Black/Gold Cavalry Cord INCLUDED
- INSIGNIA and cavalry cord included
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Sale!Steppin’ out never looked so good! Our Broadway Trilby is stylish and is the perfect accessory for stepping out to the Grammys, Oscars, or just your local tavern! Just ask Bruno Mars as this is one of his favorite hat styles. SIZE: 7 QUALITY: 100% beaver fur felt COLOR: BLACK HATBAND: 2 inch matching grosgrain ribbon. CROWN: 4 1/2" inches homburg dent BRIM: 2 3/4″ inches with slight front dip Musician Favorite THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in brand-new condition. Final sale.
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Sale!The Mick Ready to Ship Hat in Pure Beaver, Size 7 3/8 This classic town hat is our version of the Mick Hat from the legendary film, Rocky. The character of Rocky's Trainer was played by Burgess Meredith and he is brilliant, giving a nuanced performance. Maybe we should have called it Punchy because this trilby hat gives instant character! This style of hat is a musician favorite. QUALITY: Pure Beaver 100X COLOR: Whisky HATBAND: Matching 1 inch grosgrain ribbon and bow CROWN: 4 ″ BRIM: 2 1/8″ inches with a heavy pencil roll SIZE: 7 3/8 Musician favorite THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in brand-new condition. Final sale.
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Sale!Afternoon Tea Ready to Ship Hat - Ladies in 5X Raspberry, Size 7 1/8 Our Afternoon Tea ladies sun hat and is bound to attract attention! Whether you are out in your garden, or sitting on the patio, our Afternoon Tea hat is perfect for a summer afternoon (or to brighten the gloomiest of winter nights)! Final sale. 5X (5%) beaver fur felt Color: RASPBERRY with a white1.5″ ribbon and bow. CROWN: 4 1/2" open BRIM: 3 1/2″ inches SIZE: 7 1/8 THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in new condition.
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Rigby Reardon Ready to Ship Fedora
Rigby Reardon Ready to Ship Fedora – our version of the hat from Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. {1982} Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid may be the cleverest movie in the history of film. This was the first film that cut in classic film scenes and legendary film stars into the plot and dialogue of the story. Final sale. More fedorasSOLD
- Brim 2 3/4″ inches
- Crown 5"
- Hatband: 2″ Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Crown: Fedora
- Brim: Snap Brim, hand shaped Open
- Color: Black in 5X Beaver Fur felt
- Size 7 3/8
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Sale!Weekender Ready to Ship Hat - 20X (50% Beaver) Chocolate Size 7 1/8 This stylish women’s hat is perfect for cool days enjoying the outdoors, watching the leaves fall and enjoying the crisp air. Or for a night on the town and dance the night away! Color: Chocolate in 20X beaver fur felt with matching grosgrain ribbon and bow. CROWN: 4 3/4 fedora style BRIM: 2 3/4″ inches SIZE: 7 1/8 THIS IS A READY TO SHIP HAT in brand-new condition. Final sale.
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Sale!Winchester 73 ready to ship movie hat - Pure beaver (100X) in size 6 7/8 The Winchester Hat was one of the favorite cowboy hat styles of James Stewart's. This great looking cowboy movie hat has a modified Canadian shaped crown with a hand shaped brim with a bound edge. Final sale.
- Crown 5 inches
- Brim: 3 1/2"
- Color : Sand.
- Crown: Modified Canadian.
- Brim: Hand Shaped-Bound.
- Hatband: 1" Satin with Bow.
- SIZE: 6 7/8
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Sale!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
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Sale!Blondie Sharpshooter Ready to Ship Movie Hat – A pure beaver fur-felt cowboy hat reproduction of the straw hat Clint Eastwood wears early on in the iconic western; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly This great looking hat has an extra wide brim of 4 3/4″ to give excellent all weather protection. Pure Beaver in a Large size 7 (a bit larger than our standard size 7)
- Color: Bone
- Crown: Telescope
- Condition: New
- Brim:1/2″ pencil roll and hand shaped–Bound
- Hatband:1″ satin ribbon/with bow.
- Pure (100%) Beaver
- Size 7
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Sale!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.
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- 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
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Gift Card / Gift Certificate - You are purchasing a Gift Card for yourself, or to send to someone else. You can choose to send the Gift Certificate now, or on a certain date, during the checkout process. NOTE: If you want to send a gift to multiple people, just choose the amount and adjust the quantity accordingly. You will have the opportunity to enter the recipient names, email addresses and the date to send when you are checking out.
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We start with an over sized hat body to make this OUR CENTER RING PRO RODEO HAT. High crown and big brim it is the most popular style Pro Rodeo Riders are wearing these days. Both cowboys and cowgirls can be seen wearing this hat style. We know Rodeos. We know Cowboys. And we know rodeo cowboy hats!Â
- Crown: 5" inches, Modified Canadian
- Brim: 4 1/2" Hand rolled with bound brim edge
- Color Shown: GRANITE
- Hatband: CHARCOAL grosgrain ribbon, bow and matching brim edge
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Our Dusty, Â ZZ Top Fandango Cowboy Hat has a variation of a cattleman crown, with a big kettle curl and hand roll on the brim. Like our Rockin' Billy hat, the first Dusty was made for the bassist in a ZZ Top tribute band. Rock on Stanley!
- Crown: 5 1/2" inches, Modified Cattleman
- Brim: 3 3/4" hand rolled with big kettle curl
- Color Shown: BONE
- Hatband: MATCHING 1 1/2 INCH grosgrain ribbon AND BOW
- Comes with your name inside the crown
- Musician Favorite
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Poker City Jim Hat - Our take on a classic b-movie hat One of our favorite b-western cowboy hats, the Poker City Jim B-Movie Hat was the hat style worn by actor Paul Fix, in the classic B-Western: The Desert Trail. The crown has the 3 pinch cavalry crease like the Wyatt and the classic B-Movie hand rolled and kettle curled brim.
- Crown: 6" inches 3 pinch cavalry or Gus crease
- Brim: 4 1/2" Kettle Curl Bound Edge Hand Rolled
- Color: Black
- Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with  bow.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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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.”Â
- 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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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
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Tall in the Saddle Hat - One of the most distinctive of the dozens of variations of the traditional Cattleman’s crease this beauty will have you sitting tall in the saddle everywhere you go. The sleek and elegant shape of this Custom high crown cowboy hat will look good in the boardroom – or on the range.
- Crown:Modified Cattleman Crease
- Color:Silver Belly
- Brim: Hand Curled and Open
- Hatband:1/2″ satin cavalry tie off.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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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
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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
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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
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Our take on the Randall Bragg Movie Hat - from Appaloosa {2008} Jeremy Irons crafts an intriguing Randall Bragg, a well dressed, well-connected, sophisticated Cattle Baron who gets what he wants, when he wants it. Appaloosa is such a good story, with all the actors doing a fine job of moving the story along. Our Randall Bragg Movie Cowboy Hat has a telescope crown, pencil rolled brim, and is then hand-shaped and rolled higher on the left. We have used 10 cut-out star conchos strung out along a piece of 1/2" inch of leather.
- Color Shown: Black
- Crown: 4" inches Telescope
- Brim: 3 1/2" Pencil rolled and hand shaped-bound
- Hatband: Custom 1/2" leather with 10 small star conchos. Includes custom windstring.
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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"