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Good grief, the things that men obsess over… Cowboys wore hats of all kinds and styles.

The Yankees dis not win the Civil War. We won’t know the winner until the war’s over.

Bat Masterson was not a cowboy. Noether we’re “gunslingers nor outlaws.

We see in range photos as opposed to portrait photos a wide variety of hats. Certainly the cavlery hat passes as a ‘cow bow hat

Cowboys wore the 1858 Hardee Hat until Stetson invented the "Boss of the Plains" hat in 1865. The hat was designed from King Charles I's cavaliers/cavalry of the 17c. and the Mexican Lancier hat from the Mexican-American war of 1846-'48. It's called, a "slouch hat" in the U.S. and it is worn by other nations (military) to this day, all over the world. The M1858 Hardee Hat (AKA Jeff Davis Hat for Southerners). Was primarily worn by cavalry and mounted infantry, and artillery units. When the civil war was over lots of soldiers with PTSD took their hats with them to "Go West and Grow With the Country." the Wild West wasn't wild because of just Indians. It had drunk guys with service weapons, their military hats and their PTSD who mingled with people looking for a fresh start. (criminals, whores, rapists, serial killers, robbers...) I'd like to remind you that some people who served in the U.S. civil war became notorious outlaws, and vicious people with intemperate dispositions. There is a guy named Jessie James who is historically infamous for being one of these former soldiers turned outlaw, who wore a Hardee Hat until after he robbed a few banks and could buy a Boss of the Plains hat.

I suggest that you do a thorough researching of this subject because your argument is overly simplistic. At the time, people in the west wore all sorts of hats and not just the types that yo.u mentioned.

High crown, wide brimmed so call cowboy hats were invented by the Mongols in the 13th century. And, they are still popular there today. beninwanderland.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Mongolian-men-on-horses-wearning-deel.jpg

Thats a picture of Pancho Villa on the white horse.

Ok im my great grandmother this

All I got to say is Iron Brigade, Black Hats.

Look into the trousers Cowboys wore. The truth is quite funny. No denim, no jeans. Denim and jeans as we call them now we're labor clothing cowboy werent no freaking laborer.

No because I know why😂

The Highlanders were always the good guys. The english were the bad guys.

Secret crossdressers !

The kilt, AKA the Manly Miniskirt...

Because Walt Disney

What! Are you saying Hollywood films aren’t always true??

I've always considered the modern cowboy hat and boots to be the greatest crime of fashion throughout all of human history. Like out of Anything, I'd rock a tarzan flap or adult diaper before wearing one of those pointy leather man-stripper shoes. God SO ugly. And I'm a farm boy, it bothers me how many people wear that crap around here. I just found out some of those dork lids go for like 5 grand, I've brought CARS for less. I don't know who to pity more, the guy who dedicated his craft to, that, or the fool who shells out the cash for it. I sell purebred lineage cats, some for 3500, but the river stix will be frozen solid before I'd pay that much for one.

The Bronx was part of Westchester County back then. There where large land holdings there where both skinners and cowboys raided. Claudius Smith was hanged in Goshen, NY Orange County on January 22,1779.

Sounds like Dutch's gang were the real cowboys, after all.

Is it regional? Ive only heard of cowboys in the context of ranch hands hired to move cattle from the central US especially TX to slaughterhouses up north especially in Chicago. The term has certainly become less specifoc over time but never heard it to mean an outlaw.

I was here before this gets famous.

Awesome video!

The modern "cowboy hat" comes from the sloop hat.

Stetson made the bowler/derby hat. In those days, bowler/derby hats were sometimes just called Stetsons.

Will there be more content coming soon?

Bowler hats ? I think you mean DERBY HATS ! right ?

The term cowboy when it comes to black cowhands is a story I’ve known for years; however, this is the first time ever I’ve heard the truth about cowboys from anyone else outside my circles in the southern United States. Thanks for sharing the truth.

They wore baseball caps..FULL STOP....Bud.....All this other crap is.....wellll........CRAP. Ever try riding a horse 40 mph against a 40 mph wind with a """John Wayne"""...aka.. (Mario).....Hollow-wood bs Hat ????

Were there fedora style hats around, or commonly worn in the wild west era?

Stetson is a brand name not a style of hat. Stetson the company makes all sorts of hats. To call a cowboy hat a stetson is like calling a vacuum cleaner a hoover.

Bowler hats,makes sense the business community in London wear bowlers,they're cowboys!

3:07 - 1885?!

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You’re right, but you didn’t make me happy.

Most Confederates wore slouch hats,wide brim hats not bolers.Many Southerners went west after the war and took with them their hats.Not kepis nor bolers.

You deserve more subs

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. This video is rife with half-truths that (embarrassingly) are here declaimed authoritatively. Wide-brimmed hats were in military use during the American Civil War. (And the English Civil war too--- more on that later.) Those used by cavalry officers on both sides during the American Civil War had the silhouette and shape of some later cowboy hats, but they were different. Called "slouch hats", they were made of softer felt than later cowboy hats or felt Mexican sombreros. and could be flattened for packing and storage. The expatriate Hungarian cavalry officer Lajos Kossuth is largely credited with introducing the military slouch hat for cavalry use. The wide-brimmed hats became so popular that they continued in US military use during the Indian Wars period, becoming stiffer and eventually changing from dark blue color to a light brown version. The end result of this evolutionary line of hats is the familiar military campaign hat, which concept and execution eventually made its way all the way to Australia. There, the "digger hat" evolved into the Australian cowboy hat. Stetson was a major producer in the US, but not the only producer. "The Boss Of The Plains" made by Stetson became the choice of the civilian market, but was based upon military issue models. They really don't have a very wide brim. Better than a bowler, certainly. The Mexican sombrero was another traditional hat that fed into the evolution of the modern-day cowboy hat, particularly influencing the style of Western outdoor hats popular from the turn of the 20th Century through the 1930s, such as those favored by cowboys like Tim McCoy and Tom Mix: actually real cowboys who later became cowboy actors. The origin and descent of the Mexican sombrero begins in Europe during the Elizabethan period. These wide-brimmed, steeple-crowned hats remained popular from the late 1500s through the beginning of the 1700s, when their brims were turned up three ways (or two) for reasons of a fashion fad. The results were the hideous, ridiculous, and thoroughly impractical tricorn and bicorn hats popular throughout the 1700s: a style we should all hope never comes back into fashion. Look at any period painting or illustration from the 1600s period. They were popular all over Europe, from the Cavaliers, to the Dutch Masters, to the Pilgrims. Everyone wore them. They were brought into Mexico from Spain after the conquest. Because Mexico was an isolated backwater, fashions were slow to change. But regarding these hats, why should they? The wide-brimmed, steeple-crowned toppers were ultimately practical for desert wear. Other 1600s attire that remained popular in Mexico after falling out of favor in Europe included small tight-fitting vests, and sashes. Because felt is expensive, after sombreros became popular they began to be made of straws and fibers, plaited or woven. But the wide-brimmed woven straw hat was nothing new. They had been popular since antiquity in the form of the Grecian "petasos", which was low-crowned and had a unique, very "un-cowboy hat" bend to their wide brims. Just look at any image of a Thessalian shepherd on Classical Greek pottery: they wore the petasos, and chlamys (a kind of short cloak), and are often pictured holding a strait staff. This style was later echoed and sustained in Mexico, likely coincidentally out of pure practicality, by agriculture workers who wore the sombrero and poncho. Finally, those magnificent tengalan ("ten-gallon") cowboy hats of the Tim McCoy style went out of style in the US after automobiles came in. They were too big to be practical for the emerging 20th Century lifestyle, and really suitable only for those who lived and worked outdoors in the saddle, all the time. Even the more modest hats descended from The Boss Of The Plains had to be modified for use in-and-out of a pick-up truck cab. That is why the sides were bent upwards in the "Forth Worth" style seen most often today. This style also reduced the effectiveness of the hat as sun protection, beside just making them look useless and goofy.

I thought Roosevelt reported something like “trapper” hats.

Google search of early 1800s cowboys show that they did in fact wear "cowboy hats." What you meant to say is that it wasn't the only hat they wore. At least I hope that's what you meant to say.

The civil war and later cavalry officer's hats were a big influence on how hats are shaped now. Google era pics for ref... Bowlers were popular in the gentlemanly folk.. kinda dudie lookin, not very functional to keep the sun or rain off. I dont think many hats got shaped early on, mostly just bought off the shelf and I doubt there was much to chose from and good luck on getting it shaped. In the 1900 and 1920s the big pencil rolled brims and tall crowns were popular..ish from Hollywood and Tom Mix and those guys. Will James especially, he actually was a cowboy and is still a big influence, mostly in saddles its not hard to find a Will Jmaes tree in the ranchy types. Everybody loves the cowboy and Hollywood is most folks only exposure. Fedoras started getting popular thru 20s too, kinda dudie, not a punchy style. Got some outlaw and native blood in my fam and pics fron the day. Nowdays the shape of your hat and how you wear it tells alot about where your from and what your thing is, from Flat hatters vaqueros to punchers Texas taco brims. Short cattlemens style crowns to double tall Dale Brisby kinda hats. Cocked to one side, your feelin froggy, pulled down till your ears are laid over "bout to get western" or down in the front to hide your eyes kinda shifty. Interesting vid, Thank you!

The western movies actually perpetuated alot of myths about the history of the west . Actually clothing were very different from an area to another . Alot of Americans were immigrants and wore clothes from thier communities. Also they didnt carry guns like people think . Guns were many cases ristricted especially inside towns .

Sorry, had to bail out before two minutes. You really need to work on your presentation. No problem with the content.

Even if he is right, he is wrong.

Dude, wear a pair of sunglasses so we can't see your eyes reading the script and just chill out a little. Apart from that a good video 👍

🤦🏻‍♂️ Many in the western United States wore slouch hats, which are quite similar in shape and function to the later Stetson. The bowler was also a common hat, but showing a picture of a lawman (Bat Masterson) and saying he represents a cowboy rather than a city or town LEO is ridiculous. Sombreros of the Mexican style were surely common in the southwest near the border, but cowboys and ranches were common much further north (even into Canada) and the era of the cowboy extended beyond when the Boss of the Plains hat became extremely popular. There are many such videos as this that are simply repeating the same revisionist nonsense and it really needs to stop. The channel Frontier Western Heritage just did a video on this topic and it was much more accurate and better researched.

Yes they did there are old pictures of cowboys with hats

Ever wondered where the boy came from in cowboy...😉

I've heard the Stetson hat was a Union Calvary thing that kept sun and rain away from the face and neck for improved vision and less sunburn...I can hear the whinning in Texas...it ain't no Yankee thang...😂

And some would really freak out if they knew where the name cowBOY originated...(they didn't look like John Wayne....)😘 and those gunfighter shoot outs...they say less than 800 died in total...😉