Show us their hats!

[M Hatman]

Circa 1910
On the left is somebody's (not mine) Great Uncle Sewell Hoveland.

 

[GHT]

 

[BobHufford]

Late 1840s.

 

[M Hatman]

Late 1840s.

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Good one on this National Straw Hat Day!!!

 

[Zombie_61]

Good one on this National Straw Hat Day!!!

I wish I'd seen this much earlier in the day. I was out running errands anyway and could have worn one of my straw hats.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Tom Threepersons (1889 - 1969)

Born in the Cherokee Nation in present day Vinita, OK. Threepersons is thought to be a pseudo name taken to reinforce his story that he was the son of a Cherokee Chief, & support his career as a Cherokee lawman. His family birth name is unknown. He did not assume the Threepersons name until after 1912 when Blackfoot tribe member Tom Three Person won the Calgary Stampede Saddle Bronc title. It is known that Threepersons assumed the identity of Three Person at least once. No records exist to substantiate his claim he attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School either.

What can be verified is that in 1916 Threepersons served under General Jack Pershing in the US Army in pursuit of Pancho Villa. In 1922 he was hired as a Federal Prohibition Officer in TX & in 1923 as an Inspector for the US Customs Service. After some injuries he finished out his working career with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Dept, & later the El Paso Police Dept. He designed a cutaway holster for the 1911 semiauto firearm known as the Tom Threepersons holster & copied by several holster manufacturers.

Tom Three Person, member of the Blackfoot tribe & Calgary Stampede Saddle Bronc Champion of 1912.