Center Ring Pro Rodeo Cowboy Hat

Center Ring Pro Rodeo Cowboy Hat We start with an over sized hat body to make this big hat. High crown and big brim it is the most popular style Pro Rodeo Riders are wearing these days. Both cowboys and cowgirls favor this hat style. Every year at the National Finals Rodeo and The Calgary Stampede many of the cowboys competing are wearing this style of hat. A cowboy needs a good hat and we are proud to make some of the best working Cowboy hats available anywhere. Professional rodeo champions wear our high performance working hats. Get one yourself and then you will know why we call it The Last Best Cowboy Hat!   For more information go to our fact page and you’ll learn all about our great cowboy, western hats and fedoras and how we do it. We also have information about our beaver fur felt, available colors, hat sizing , as well as some sections on general hat care, and Cowboy Hat Etiquette. Lots of information to go through, if you are so inclined! We know Rodeos. We know Cowboys. And we know rodeo cowboy hats!  A Bit of Rodeo History Yakima Canutt displaying some of his buckles and trophies – circa 1920 Yakima {Enos} Canutt {1895-1986} is an important figure in early movie history. A gifted athlete, and 4 time World Champion Rodeo rider, Canutt was an early silent film star. When sound came to motion pictures in 1927, his voice ended his career as a leading man so he became a character actor and focused his talent on stunt work. Along the way Yak invented the movie punch, taught young western stars his famous walk and how to handle a six-gun. Yak was a pioneer in inventing safety equipment for stuntmen, and stunt-doubled for virtually every famous male actor of his day. And even some of the women! He was so respected in the early days of Hollywood that when an action sequence was called for, the writer would simply scrawl, “ACTION BY YAKIMA…” Canutt got his nick-name, at one of his first Rodeos in Washington State, when the Ring Announcer told the audience, “Here comes that young cowboy from Yakima.“ More about Yak Canutt