Just outside the Fort Worth Stockyards, generations of craftsmanship define The Best Hat Store—keeping the cowboy tradition ...

Chris Christmas, a fourth-generation Black cowboy with Native American roots, considers the cowboy hat to be an indispensable part of his heritage. “I think I was born with a cowboy hat,” said the ...

D Bar M Western Store owner Jack Bassett shows us what it takes to shape a custom cowboy hat.

HOUSTON — Mark Hollar spends his days selling and shaping upscale hats meant to last decades. The black hat he wears was a gift from a friend in 1993 when he was the best man at the friend’s wedding.

A cowboy hat is one of those wardrobe pieces that either works completely or fails completely. There’s almost no middle ...