Stetson cowboy hats and Texas go together like peas and carrots. The countless Texans who own one probably don’t know the origins of the brand can be traced back, not to the Lone Star State, but ...

In 1860, an ailing East Coast hat maker named John Batterson Stetson headed west to mine for gold. He didn’t strike it rich, but he ended up with something much more valuable: the design for the first ...