NCOWS hat?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Is this an authentic hat?

Slim

[Delmonico]

Slim, I thought I had you taught better by now, go to our friend Solomon Butcher and do the cowboys search, since with yer brandin' irun you try to do the cowboy personna.  Now look at the hats on the range cowboys.  Put that hat in the back a yer pickup fer another month and it will look right.  To bad the hat I'm wearin' in the picture in "The Shootist" don't show up better, I'll bring it to the NCOWS connvention, it ain't attacked anyone in a while.

Often the brim up in front had a use, makes it easier to shoot a rifle with tang sights, George Custer had some sort of hook and eye arangement for his.  Myself I just use a straight pin to hold the brim up on the ugly hat when I shoot the Sharps.

[Delmonico]

Fer fun I dug this up outa the Denver Public Library Collection.  The guy it the back with the hat that looks like Corperal Agarn from F Troop is one of the Regimental Surgons, Dr. Lord.  He was killed before he made it to the top of Reno Hill on the 25th of June 1876.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hawp:17:./temp/~ammem_lTcu:

Click on the photo fer a better look.

[Old Top]

Delmonico,

That one did not work for me can you try again?

Old Top

[Silver Creek Slim]

Del,
Is this the picture?

Source page

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim, it looks about as authentic as you can get. No offense, but I like it a lot better than the one in your avatar with the country & western rolled up side brims. If you look at most old photo's, the hat was about a non-descript item as you can get. Most would look more like a comic would wear now days. It's hard for most people to get way from the rolled up sides or turned down front as is commonly worn by most SASS shooters. Also you will see a lot of modern shooters wearing the Gus crease in their hats. Personally I like a hat with the front curled up but can't bring myself to wear it that way.. So, I wear a flat brimmed Boss of the Plains.

By the way, welcome to NCOWS.

Check my avatar now. 

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

I have always liked this hat. 



Slim

[Ol Gabe]

Slim, its a well-known fact, well, only in Iowa perhaps, that if your dress like Froggy and wear a hat like his you have to be able to sing like him or else you'll get run out of the bar! Can you hit a double-bass 'D'?
Best regards and good singing!
'Ol Gabe
P.S. Check out 'Frog' at his watch table next convention, he has some goooooooood stuff!

[Silver Creek Slim]

Ol Gabe,
Everytime I watch one of his movies I practice hitting that low note. I got a bunch of his movies 'cuz the kids (and the parents) love to watch him. I am trying to find a Frog shirt so I can dress like him for a match. 

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Thanks, Joss. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

Thats the picture.  don't know why the links from LOC American Memory often work for a while and then stop workin.  It's both here and on the one at work.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Delmonico,
Would you say the brim on the Dr.'s hat is about 6" wide?

Slim

[Delmonico]

I'd say 4 inches, ya notice he is shorter than Custer by 3-4 inches,  I belive Custer was 5'9" so that would make Dr. Lord about 5'6" . 

[Silver Creek Slim]

The more I look at that hat, it appears that the back brim is "pinned" up also like Napoleon's hat.


Slim

[Big Hext Finnigan]

It's hard to tell.. so many of the floopy brims were turned up, so the photographer could see the face..  I think most hats were pretty much flat brimmed.

My Uncle Mo runs the ranch in Alpine.  He buys a new hat every ten years, whether he needs them or not.
When they were filming one of the Lonesome Dove movies out there, he was offered $500 for one of his hats, and it was only in it's 7th year.  I have a hat that I only use out there... it used to be silverbelly and now.. it's just a color..

Adios,

[Silver Creek Slim]

Hext,
How wide is the brim of your hat in your jail bird avatar?

Slim

[Big Hext Finnigan]

Slim, that ain't no hat.. that's a sombrero..
8 inch brim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim, that ain't no hat.. that's a sombrero..
8 inch brim

Ah! That's what I should get and steam the brim up. 

Slim

[Uncle Eph]

8 inch brim, man that's some smobreada sombrero.

[Cuts Crooked]

One of my favorite authentic hats: