[theDentist]

Looks like a woman’s hat. And no, I wouldn’t want to have to tell him that. I like my innards where they presently reside. :-)

[johnny7]

Custer wore a similar hat about a month before...

[Mobile Vulgus]

Looks like a women’s hat?

You wouldn’t say that if you knew anything about male headwear of the time period. The “cowboy” hats we are all so familiar with did not exist until the 1920’s

For that matter, no gunslinger or cowboy of that period ever wore their gun holster low on the legs like we see in movies today. All gun holsters were right against the waist belt like we think of a police man’s pancake holster is today.

Imagine trying to ride a horse with your gun all the way down your leg? It would fall right out of the holster every time you sat in the saddle!

And NO cavalry soldier ever had a yellow kerchief as part of their uniform EITHER!

If you want to know anything about what REAL cowboys and western folks did, wore, or had in the REAL cowboy days (between the 1850s and 1900) IGNORE Hollywood!!!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Wide-brimmed hats were actually quite common in the 1870s since they served a practical purpose of shielding their wearers from both the sunlight and rain. Cowboys hats like John Wayne wore did not come into being until the 1920s.