Conjure the Old West in your head and what images come to mind? Do you picture a cowboy on the range sporting a wide-brimmed hat and a pair of well-worn boots? Perhaps he’s riding a horse with a ...

Texas-based cowboy hat manufacturer American Hat Company, which sells a variety of straw and felt hats, attributes booming business to increased interest in Western lifestyle.

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 ...

ELKVIEW, W.Va. (WCHS) — Lots of people played cowboys and Indians growing up, CJ Landers of Elkview certainly did, but it was watching Gunsmoke and westerns with his dad that embedded the western ...

Across advertising and popular media, seemingly everyone is grabbing their fringe, denim and Stetson boots, in a wholehearted embrace of the American West.

The National Western Stock Show gives “city slickers” a chance to rub elbows with real ranchers, cowboys and rural lifestyle representatives. Once a year, they dust off their cowboy hats — which they ...

There are a lot of brands that boast about their American heritage, even if they're only a few decades old. Then there's Stetson. The quintessential Western brand was founded in 1865 by John B.

Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office deputies, many of whom serve rural parts of eastern Colorado, are donning Western cowboy hats as a new part of their uniforms — a nod to the county’s history and an ...

OGDEN — For JD Casperson, a true 21st century cowboy, there aren’t many things better than shooting a gun while riding a horse. And thankfully, Casperson says, there’s a flourishing organization in ...