Old West Cowboy Hats

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.

  • 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"
    Our hats off to Joshua Anthony for ordering the first one
  • 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.
  • Bohannon Cowboy Hat

    $355.00$745.00
    The Cullen Bohannon Cowboy Hat from the AMC series, Hell On Wheels, hand made by the last best west This is the same hat style we made for actor Anson Mount, and he wore as the ass kicking railway man Cullen Bohannon, in the last 2 years of the series.
    • Crown: 4 1/4" inches Texas Flat
    • Brim: 3 1/2" inches
    • Shown in Black with optional medium trail dust Available in all colors
    • Hatband: 1″ inch grosgrain ribbon and bow.
  • 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
  • Augustus Custom Handmade Hat

    $355.00$770.00
    augustus custom handmade hat style from the classic mini-series, Lonesome Dove (1989) Loveable old Ranger Augustus McCrae is the scalawag that keeps the Hat Creek Cattle Company loose and is a great counter balance to the salty Woodrow Call.  This style of old west crown with it's 3 pinch cavalry creasing was first called the "Tom Mix" after the early movie star, and then became known as "The Gus" crease because of  Lonesome Dove. This is a great look for both men and women! 250_white_filials
    • CROWN: 6 inches
    • BRIM: 4"
    • Crown: Modified 3 pinch cavalry
    • Brim: Hand worked and rolled
    • Hatband: Custom 1/2" leather twist
    • Color shown: Sand
    • hats ship in 12-14 weeks
    • Personalized with your name inside the crown
  • Samuel Jones Movie Hat

    $380.00$770.00
    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
  • Sundance Kid Cowboy Hat

    $390.00$770.00
    Sundance Kid Cowboy Hat - Our take on a classic western movie hat the hat worn by Robert Redford in 1969s, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.  This hat is pretty nondescript and is a good representation of the type of hat that would have been seen in the later half of the 19th century on many of the cowboys riding through the west.
    • Crown: 4 1/4" inches Telescope
    • Brim: 3 1/4 inches open with a gentle hand-roll
    • Color: Chocolate with light trail dust
    • Hatband: 1/2" distressed brown leather
    • Personalized with your name inside the crown
  • Hickok Old West Hat

    $380.00$810.00

    a historical reproduction of Wild Bill Hickok's hat 

    Hickok Old West Cowboy Hat. We start with an over sized hat body to make this classic western hat, with a short crown and wide pencil rolled brim. Brims worked different - but essentially the same hat worn by Wild Bill on HBOs Deadwood.
    • Crown: 4 1/2 inches Texas flat
    • Brim 4" Pencil rolled and Bound
    • Color: Black
    • Hatband: 1" inch Satin with Bow
    • Personalized with your name inside the crown
  • Yellowstone Kelly Hat

    $380.00$825.00
    an authentic old west hat with over sized brim  Yellowstone Kelly Custom Hat - We introduced this hat design in 2008 based on what we think Yellowstone Kelly is wearing in the historical photo from the 1890s. The brim we have pretty dang close and we have used a crown treatment that would have been in keeping with the style exhibited by this cultured warrior. 250_white_filials
    • CROWN: 5 1/2 inches
    • BRIM: 4 1/2 inches
    • Crown Shape: Modified Cavalry Pinch
    • Color: Whiskey
    • Brim: Hand rolled with 1" kettle curl Bound Edge
    • Hatband: 1" inch Chocolate brown satin with 1898 bow
    • Personalized with your name inside the crown
  • Jeb Stuart Hat

    $370.00$810.00
    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
  • Plainsman Custom Hat

    $380.00$810.00
    Plainsman Custom Hat - A Blend of Two Styles This great looking hat is a blend of 2 hat styles. This has the Tom Mix sagebrush shaped crown, and the brim shape from the Decker. We start with an oversized hat body to do this big hat with a brim width of 4 3/4".
    • Crown: Modified sagebrush
    • Color shown: Chocolate
    • Brim: hand shaped - bound
    • Hatband: 1" grosgrain ribbon, with 1898 Bow
    • Crown Height: 3 1/2" front; 6" back
    • Brim: 4 3/4"
    • Personalized with your name inside the crown
  • Westerner Movie Hat

    $390.00$780.00
    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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