- Hatband: 1 1/2 inch satin with bow.
- Crown: Creased
- Brim: Kettle Curl Bound
- Color: Black
OLD WEST COWBOY HATS
The Cowboy Hat defines the wearer
A traditional cowboy prized his hat above all things – with good reason. It was often worth a month or two’s wages – and that made it very expensive. The cowboy likely spent hours personalizing the hat with creases to the crown and molding the brim – that made it his.
A 19th century cowboy would go to hell and back to retrieve a misplaced old west hat and it was seldom further than an arm’s length away.
Old Fashion Quality
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.
The Last Best Cowboy Hat
We start with the best fur-felt hat body available – made in the USA – and fashion as fine a hand-made western hat as you can find anywhere, for any price.
Made to order. Made to last. Made in America by the Cowboys at The Last Best West.
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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. -
Working Champie Cowboy Hat - This is the working version of the Champie. Open Brim - not bound, more creasing to the crown. This crown shape is one of the most popular designs - from the late 19th century all the way to modern times. These days this basic crown shape is called the "Gus" after Robert Duvall's character in Lonesome Dove.- Crown: 6 inches
- Brim 4"
- Color Shown: Sahara.
- Crown: Modified 3 Pinch cavalry.
- Brim: Hand worked-Open.
- Hatband: 1/4" grosgrain ribbon Cavalry Tie
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The Schofield Kid Classic Cowboy Hat - We've refined the look of the movie hat by adding a bit of a kettle curl and hand roll. And like the movie version we've added a wider brim to the classic bowler crown.
An authentic 19th century cowboy hat design that would feel at home anywhere in the old west.
Other bowlers Masterson :: King
- Color shown: Black
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- Crown: 5" Bowler
- Brim: 2 3/4" with kettle curl and hand roll
- Hatband: 1 1/2" grosgrain ribbon and bow
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The hat style worn by Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine. This distinctive looking hat is a cousin of the Open Range and a relation of the Wasey, and the Conagher. Smaller brimmed then the Open Range, our version is also similar to the hat seen in The Man who shot Liberty Valance.- Crown: 6" inches Modified 3 dent Sagebrush.
- Brim: 3 1/2" inches Hand Rolled with bound edge
- Color Shown: Granite Available in all colors, see color tabs below
- Hatband: 3/4" Satin with bow
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Desperado Cowboy Hat - an original hat design by the last best west.This baby will get some second looks! This old west performers hat is sure to get comments with it's lopsided crown and massive kettle curled brim.- Color shown: BONE in 100X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- Crown: 4 1/2" inches modified telescope
- Brim: 4 1/2" hand shaped and kettle curled brim
- Hatband: 1 inch grosgrain ribbon/with Indian motive second band over top
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Billy the Kid Western Movie Hat
The Billy the Kid Western Movie hat is an off kilter telescope style. It is from the 2019 western with a twist, The Kid. This re-telling of the Billy the Kid saga has the movie's point of view taken from a teenager who happens to cross his path. The hat Billy wears has a certain amount of historical credibility and is sure to get attention
This sharp looking hat style is a smaller cousin of our Desperado style from 2018. If you prefer the crown to tilt left to right instead of right to left, just request it on the notes below as you build your hat.
- Color shown: Black
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- Crown: 4" Sideways telescope
- Brim: 2 3/4" with kettle curl
- Hatband: 1 1/2" grosgrain ribbon and bow
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Our version of the Samuel Jones Movie Hat - from The Missing The Samuel Jones Hat is the one worn by Tommy Lee Jones, as Samuel Jones, a white man turned Apache, who returns to his estranged daughter in time to try and rescue his grand-daughter from slave traders. Like the character there is nothing fancy about this hat, a simple open crowned cowboy hat with a bit of a pencil roll.- CROWN HEIGHT: 5" INCHES Open
- BRIM: 4" 1/2" Pencil roll, with a gentle hand roll - Bound.
- Color: Pecan
- Hatband: Satin Ribbon with bow, with matching bound edge.
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Lonesome Dove (1989) debuting on TV, this is our version of the hat worn by Frederick Forrest as the murderous border outlaw, Blue DuckOur Blue Duck cowboy hat is one big and imposing cowboy hat with its six inch crown and 4 1/2 inch brim. Shown here in Charcoal, with our optional light trail dust.- Color shown: Charcoal in 20X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- shown with optional light trail dust
- Crown: 6" inches Reverse Tycoon
- Brim: 4 1/2" hand shaped heavy dip front and back
- Hatband: 1" grosgrain ribbon and bow
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Jeb Stuart Hat - Based on the General's Original Hat Additional color and option information is located on tabs at the bottom of the page.- Crown: 4 1/2"
- Brim: 3 1/2" inches
- Crown: Modified Cavalry
- Color: Sand with optional medium trail dust
- Brim: hand shaped/right tacked to crown - bound
- Hatband: 1 1/2" grosgrain ribbon, with 1898 Bow
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Westerner Movie Hat - Our take on Gary Cooper's, Cole Hardin hat from The Westerner (1940) This classic old west hat has a soft telescope crown, with a big 4 inch brim, and a gentle dip to the front and back. Shown with our optional medium trail dust our Westerner Movie Hat could easily be mistaken for the hat worn by Denzel Washington as Chisholm in the new western remake of the 1960s iconic film The Magnificent Seven. All it needs is a narrow cord hatband. If you want the Chisolm version, just ask for it in the PRODUCTION NOTES section of your order.- Crown Height: 4 1/2"
- Brim: 4"
- Crown: Soft Telescope
- Color shown: Black with optional light Trail Dust
- Brim: hand shaped with slight roll - Open
- Hatband: 1" custom leather hatband
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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Have Gun Will Travel Dress Hat - Our version of Paladin’s Carleton Hotel Town Hat. From the TV series (1957-1963) hand made by the last best west In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Have Gun Will Travel, was one of the most watched TV shows of the early decades of television. Richard Boone portrayed the character Paladin convincingly to millions of viewers and the hats were great.- CROWN: 4 3/8" inches Texas Flat
- BRIM: 3 1/4″ inches Hand rolled with a kettle curl
- COLOR SHOWN: BONE
- HATBAND: Matching 1 1/2″ inch grosgrain ribbon
- Musician Favorite
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Our version of the Alfred Legends of the Fall Hat - the Aidan Quinn hat from Legends of the Fall (1994) This crown shape is the forefather of the Open Road crown shape, and looks good anywhere you might like to wear it, from the Boardroom to the Billiards Hall. Movie hat has an 1898 bow, and if you'd like it on your hat just request it in the PRODUCTION NOTES.- Color Shown: Chocolate brown
- Crown: Modified Cattleman
- Brim: Hand worked-open
- Hatband: 1" inch Satin with bow
- CROWN HEIGHT: 4 3/4
- BRIM: 3 1/2"
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Our take on the Texas Jack Vermillion Hat - from Tombstone {1993} Another uncomplicated hat. This is the hat style worn by Peter Sherayko as Texas Jack Vermillion. A classic Boss of the Plains, with a pushed up front and bound edge. Shown with optional windstring. Movie hat is a bone color.- Crown: 4" Open - Uncreased
- Brim: 4 inches Pushed up centre-right front, flat/bound edge
- Color Shown: undyed natural
- Hatband: Custom 1" satin ribbon and bow.
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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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Rocky Mountain Ranger Cowboy Hat handmade by the last best west Our Rocky Mountain Ranger Cowboy Hat is a custom, handmade cowboy hat. With this design we attempted to fashion a crown shape reminiscent of a ridge in the Alberta Rocky Mountains. We feel this back crease beautifully compliments the 3 pinch creasing we have worked into the front of the crown.- Hatband: 1" satin ribbon with an 1898 bow
- Color: Undyed Natural
- Brim: 4 inches
- Crown: 6 inches
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Big Jim Cowboy Hat - A bigger brimmed version of our Jim West hat This big brimmed hat has the classic telescope crown with an old west roll to the big kettle curled brim.Big Jim Cowboy Hat is a great Range hat and has a 3 3/4" finished brim width, great for all weather conditions. Add our optional trail dust to take off the new hat shine!- Crown: 4 1/4 " Telescope.
- Brim: 3 3/4" inches Kettle Curled and hand rolled-Bound.
- Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow.
- Color Shown: Black with optional light trail dust.
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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Bonanza (1959 - 1972) debuting on TV, this is our take on the magnificently simple hat worn by Dan Blocker as Hoss. Big Guys like big hats. And Dan Blocker was a big man right from the start. Weighing 14 pounds at birth he grew to be a 6' 4" and 300 pound favorite on the iconic TV Western, Bonanza. And his Hoss Cowboy hat was the most authentic old west hat, any of the cast of Bonanza wore.- Color shown: Silver Belly in 100X Beaver Fur-felt
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
- shown with optional medium trail dust
- Crown: 6" inches open un-creased
- Brim: 4 1/2" hand shaped and rolled
- Hatband: horse hair hat band
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Custom Cowboy Hat - The 1957. Richard Boone wore one. So did Dean
Fact is you could tune into just about any tv show or western film from the 1950s and 1960s and see some sort of variation of the hat style we are calling, 1957. And it is still popular today with the Whitey character from the TV series Godless sporting one.
Martin. Richard Benjamin the star of the original West World movie wore one.- CROWN: 4 1/2 inches Front pinch, Pecan top
- BRIM: 3 1/2" hand rolled
- Hatband: 1/4" satin ribbon tied cavalry style
- Color: sand with optional medium trail dust
- Personalized with your name inside the crown
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The Little Hoss Cowboy hat - a great character hat style - hand made by the last best west
Little Hoss Cowboy Hat - A Doctor in upstate New York wanted this unique hat style for his rural practice. This town hat style and variations of it were seen in cities and towns all over the world in the 19th century.- Crown: 6 inches
- Brim: 2 3/4"
- Color Shown: Pecan in long haired Frontier fur felt
- Crown: Open or Uncreased
- Brim: hand rolled-Open
- Hatband: 1" Grosgrain ribbon and bow
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Our Boot Hill cowboy hat is shown in a new color for us - Black Cherry. If you look closely this black appearing hat has a warm under color - a deep cherry that is easiest to see in bright light.- Crown: 5" inches Modified Sagebrush
- Brim: 4 inches Kettle Curl with Bound Edge
- Color Shown: Black Cherry with black bound edge
- Hatband: 1" inch black Satin with 1898 Bow
- Check tabs below for our hat options and colors
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Our take on the Virgil Cole Movie Hat - from Appaloosa {2008} Our Virgil Cole Hat is the cowboy hat worn by Ed Harris in 2008s excellent Western Film, Appaloosa. This is also the hat with only minor changes (a front pinch to the crown and a bit more roll to the brim) that Mr. Harris wears as The Man in Black, in HBOs new western hit, Westworld. It's almost like the character is patterned after a mean and vicious Virgil Cole. If you would like The Man in Black version, add the request to the PRODUCTION NOTES. The style is a an adjusted version of a basic Boss of the Plains style cowboy hat. Add a homburg dent to the crown and give a nice dip to the front of the brim and there she be. Pretty close to a Fort Bragg version of the US Cavalry Hat from the 1870s.- Crown: 4 1/2" inches Modified Homburg dent
- Brim: 4"' inches Hand worked-bound
- Color Shown: Black
- Hatband: 1" Satin with bow
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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.
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Texican Movie Hat - Our take on Audie Murphy's favorite Cowboy hat hand made by the last best west Audie Murphy was recruited by Hollywood because of his WWII fame, and was soon an up and coming movie star. He is best remembered for his westerns, of which he made several memorable ones. Films like Seven Ways from Sundown,The Texican, Destry, Gunsmoke, Ride a Crooked Trail, and The Unforgiven, are just a few.- CROWN HEIGHT: 4 1/2" Modified Canadian
- BRIM: 3 1/2" Hand shaped and rolled - Open
- Color Shown: Silver belly.
- Hatband: Custom 1" black leather.
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Buffalo Bill Cody Commemorative hat is a commemorative celebration of the life of Buffalo Bill Cody by the last best west Buffalo Bill Cody Cowboy hat Buffalo Bill Cody was the most well known personality of his time. One hundred years ago, in 1917, Buffalo Bill was the most recognized person on earth. Because of Bill Cody we have the modern day rodeo and the circus; and the world still loves cowboy hats and boots.- Crown: 4 1/4" inches Modified Cattleman
- Brim: 3 3/4" with a kettle curl, and hand roll
- Hatband: 2" grosgrain ribbon and bow
- Color shown: Whiskey
- Available in all colors (see color tab below)
