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When legendary Western hatter John B. Stetson invented the first commercially manufactured cowboy hat in 1865, he probably didn’t expect it would become a major fashion accessory more than a ...
John Batterson Stetson (May 5, 1830 – February 18, 1906) was an American hat maker who invented the cowboy hat in the 1860s. He founded the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1865, and it became one of the largest hat manufacturers in the world.
Manny Gammage's Texas Hatters Inc., also known as Texas Hatters, is a family-owned and operated hat shop and millinery specializing in fine quality handmade hats and hat restorations. Owned and operated by the Gammage family since 1927, the Texas Hatters has created custom hats for a variety of patrons, including many notable musicians, actors ...
Forgotten Winchester on display at Great Basin NP Visitor Center, 2023. The rifle is a Winchester Repeating Arms Company Model 1873, chambered in .44-40 Winchester. This model is sometimes known as "the gun that won the West." The rifle's serial number indicates that it was one of 25,000 manufactured in 1882. [6]
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The flat hat, or campaign hat, was kept by designers, and the breeches and puttees that were worn resembled those of the cavalry officers that still occupied the parks. The biggest difference between the rangers' and the cavalry officers' uniforms was the tunic; the ranger's tunic of 1911 was basically a Norfolk jacket worn without a belt.
Hat making was, for many years, a major industry in Lancaster and Berks County where Adamstown is located. Bollman Hat Company became one of the best known hat makers in the region, supplying hat bodies (the unshaped felted wool cones) to hat makers up and down the east coast. Over time they bought out the majority of the other hat makers in ...