July 2009 Archives

Calgary police officers working in the city’s downtown area are about to get a change to their uniform: cowboy hats! A friend of ours forwarded us an article from CTV.ca that talks about this exciting bit of news and explains why they decided to make cowboy hats part of the uniform. Officers up until now [...]

Here in Austin, it sure has been hot! We can’t tell you how useful cowboy hats have been in shielding our eyes from the sun on these scorching summer days. So we all know how handy cowboy hats can be when it comes to protecting yourself from the weather, but what about other summer western [...]

Once again, we wanted to thank everybody who participated in our Ariat cowboy boots contest on Twitter. We had a ton of entries and randomly chose a winner. And our winner was Hailey Jett! Here she is picking up her pair of Ladies Ariat Chili/Sepia Crepe boots at Allens Boots last Friday. Her contest entry [...]

Texas sharpshooter Joe Bowman was known all over America for his amazing skills. Typically dressed in a cowboy hat and cowboy boots that he hand-made, he called himself the “Master of Triggernometry” and the “Straight Shooter.” Sadly, he passed away on June 29 at the age of 84. Bowman was legendary when it came to [...]

A Wichita Falls, Texas western wear store closed in 2006 after being open since 1953, and the owner’s amazing collection of over 500 cowboy hats will be preserved at the Museum of North Texas History. Great news indeed for such a legendary part of Wichita Falls history. The store was Cow Lot Western Wear, and [...]

…@haileyjett! She’ll be getting her choice of the Ladies Ariat Chili/Sepia Crepe boots or the Men’s Ariat Stockman Brown boots. We’d like to send out a huge thank you to everyone on Twitter who entered our cowboy boots contest. There were some really, really great entries, and we used twitRand to pick a random entry [...]