Western, anyone?

[M Hatman]

LBJ Ranch Sitting Room, Sept 1965

 

[M Hatman]

1929 Wards

HATTERS, CLEANERS, AND DYERS!!!!!

Circa 1910..Chicago Hatter........LOVE the bawdy poem on the back!!!:eek: he Was Not a Union Man. "He tried me on the sofa, He tried me on the chair, He tried me on the window sill, And could not do it there. He tried me this and that way, Oh! Goodness how I laughed, To see in how many ways...

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[M Hatman]

1906.....

More Here: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/hatters-cleaners-and-dyers.99090/post-3268081

 

[BobHufford]

Wormser Royal Luxury “The Texan”. 5-1/2” crown, 3” brim. Unfortunate mothing.

 

[Bamaboots]

Rare one, Bob.

 

[BobHufford]

Rare one, Bob.

Thanks Greg. Wish it fit and had never met the moth family.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Wish it fit and had never met the moth family.

It doesn’t look like many divots are on the bottom brim side. It might be worth turning it inside out.

I have forgotten but can research it if no one knows but why are some Texans also Ten Stars?

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Attended this months Old West Roundtable breakfast meeting under a BOP clone.

 

[hambone71]

Attended this months Old West Roundtable breakfast meeting under a BOP clone.

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Nice BOP clone! What is the Old West Roundtable? Is it a club or society where you do reenactments and such, or something different! As a Gen X’er (‘71), I feel like I grew up in the last generation that admired Westerns and the whole Western culture. I was one those kids who always wanted to be a cowboy, lol. Stuff like that is interesting to me. I live in Alabama and it is definitely an agricultural state with lots of farms/farmers but light on real Western culture with true horse and cattle ranches. They exist, but few and far between.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Nice BOP clone! What is the Old West Roundtable? Is it a club or society where you do reenactments and such, or something different! As a Gen X’er (‘71), I feel like I grew up in the last generation that admired Westerns and the whole Western culture. I was one those kids who always wanted to be a cowboy, lol. Stuff like that is interesting to me. I live in Alabama and it is definitely an agricultural state with lots of farms/farmers but light on real Western culture with true horse and cattle ranches. They exist, but few and far between.

Thank you! It’s an RJT. The dimensions are spot on, & I’ll get around to a more correct ribbon sometime. I gave up trying to find an original BOP in my size. I enjoy wearing it.

Roundtables are more about true historical research & mostly local driven. Nearby there are three Civil War Roundtables. I belong to one & attend another when they have interesting programs. For several yrs our Roundtable was associated with a speakers bureau that we used to educate the public. We have artifacts the Roundtable owns on display in a local museum. The Old West Roundtable is an offshoot, just post Civil War during the settling of the American West. There are local chapters here of national organizations but some of those have closed since the Covid pandemic & lockdown. There was always a lot of osmosis of individuals among the various groups as we’re all interested in the same things. But we’re all getting older & younger people aren’t too interested.

 

[TimmyV]

Stetson Nutria Quality for your perusal. Feeling like a WIDE brim BIG hat today & this one was hollering my name !!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Stetson Nutria Quality for your perusal.

Very nice Timmy. I like it dentless!

 

[BobHufford]

The Stelzig All-Around Beaver “100” by Bradford. 1970s? 6” x 4”.

First “100” I’ve seen from Bradford.

 

[hambone71]

Thank you! It’s an RJT. The dimensions are spot on, & I’ll get around to a more correct ribbon sometime. I gave up trying to find an original BOP in my size. I enjoy wearing it.

Roundtables are more about true historical research & mostly local driven. Nearby there are three Civil War Roundtables. I belong to one & attend another when they have interesting programs. For several yrs our Roundtable was associated with a speakers bureau that we used to educate the public. We have artifacts the Roundtable owns on display in a local museum. The Old West Roundtable is an offshoot, just post Civil War during the settling of the American West. There are local chapters here of national organizations but some of those have closed since the Covid pandemic & lockdown. There was always a lot of osmosis of individuals among the various groups as we’re all interested in the same things. But we’re all getting older & younger people aren’t too interested.

Very interesting! Thanks for that info. We have Civil War enthusiast type groups here in the Heart of Dixie but I’ve never been involved. I’d like to learn more about the Westward expansion. I saw Part 1 of Kevin Costner’s Horizon saga, which follows multiple storylines of the early expansion days and I thought it was great. I guess the box office movie goers didn’t fully understand that the project was intended to be a multi-part series to be released one after the other at the box office, and the whole thing flopped. Perhaps Costner was too ambitious in trying to sell it at movie theaters and should have made a deal with one of the streaming services instead. Now it’s dead and we’ll never to get to see it in it’s entirety.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

lots of farms/farmers but light on real Western culture with true horse and cattle ranches.

There was a horse ranch within a mile of where I live (The Tall Pony) that sold a couple yrs ago to a religious group from IA. They were supposed to use it as some kind of religious retreat but I don’t know if they ever did or not. It came up for sale again this summer & was purchased by a developer who intends to built a subdivision. He has been hauling in rock & crushed concrete, intends to set up a batch plant to make his own cement for the streets & infrastructure.

I went to the Tall Pony auction, bought some stuff & took some pics when I came out the gate.

I’d like to learn more about the Westward expansion.

At a time when most crops were still traded on the barter system, for my family it was about cheap land with good soil, & the 2-3 cash crops of the day. I was the 6th generation to be born & raised there.

 

[Thundercolt]

Very interesting! Thanks for that info. We have Civil War enthusiast type groups here in the Heart of Dixie but I’ve never been involved. I’d like to learn more about the Westward expansion. I saw Part 1 of Kevin Costner’s Horizon saga, which follows multiple storylines of the early expansion days and I thought it was great. I guess the box office movie goers didn’t fully understand that the project was intended to be a multi-part series to be released one after the other at the box office, and the whole thing flopped. Perhaps Costner was too ambitious in trying to sell it at movie theaters and should have made a deal with one of the streaming services instead. Now it’s dead and we’ll never to get to see it in it’s entirety.

Glad to know that there are still folks like you, who are interested in the REAL history of the Western Frontier.

 

[MikeinRome]

Howdy! Been a bit absent on TFL but slowly making my way back on. Couldn't pass up posting this recent find for you all to see. 4x Miller "Montanan". Hope everyone is doing well!
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Jesse, I think this particular Miller 4X Montana of yours is from the late 1930's or thereabouts, which seems to be when they first produced these, best I can tell from the catalogs. And at that time the price was only $5. You're showing a later ad, when the price had increased. I'm judging the date of your hat based on that sweatband and the Miller logo inside the hat crown.
I have one of these hats, but with a different sweatband and no Miller logo inside the crown. Mine might be a little later than yours.

 

[jkingrph]

I have some big Stetson and Resistol westerns, mostly cattleman style but a couple in what Stetson calls a pinch front which I like better. The last few years my tastes have been running more to the Open Road and Stratoliner size and styles.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Morning caffeine run under a Knox American Royal Arminto.

 

[M Hatman]

I was curious because I've been wondering if there are some western styles that share some DNA with homburgs.... They have a similar vibe to me with the curls. It makes me curious what a homburg with a thin ribbon might look like.

I would say the brim influence came more from the Coke /Bowler/Derby influence as they had been around over here since around the 1860.....the Homburg came almost 40 years later.