Philadelphia’s John B Stetson headed west in the 1860s for health reasons. He fashioned himself a big hat to protect him from rain, sun and wind which he dubbed the ”Boss of the Plains”. Praised for ...

Based a half hour east of Dallas, the legendary hat company Stetson makes premium hats at a large factory in a quiet neighborhood. Inside a sprawling beige building, workers follow a process ...

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 ...

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Stetson Hats are a strong, historic, U.S.-born brand that has been worn by cowboys, U.S. Army Calvary members, movie stars and pioneers in the American West. John B. Stetson founded the company in ...

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 ...

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