If you ask the Hartmans, what separates a real cowboy hat from mere imitations is felt made from beaver fur. Or to be more precise, the soft undercoating of the beaver skin.

Tom Hirt molds the interior of a handmade beaver skin hat at his home shop in Penrose. Hirt takes pride in teaching, imparting the ways of hat-making at Trinidad State Junior College and at ...

Frances Backhouse’s natural history of the beaver, “Once They Were Hats,” chronicles the story of a species that has bounced back from the edge of extinction and proved able to coexist with ...

FAIRBANKS — Using an X-ACTO knife, Ignatius Runfola cuts into a beaver skin pelt, carefully following a pattern for the ear-panel of a beaver skin hat, also known as a ...

Not when their holiday tradition involves beaver-skin hats, scarlet coats and a century-old horseback chase across the farmlands of Monkton. Tallyho!

A study found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat, a centerpiece of Illinois' Abraham Lincoln museum, ever actually belonged to Lincoln.

A new study has found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat — for years a centerpiece of Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln museum — ever actually belonged to the 16th U.S ...

But now, a hat-making company that opened in 1860 is shutting its doors. Saturday, Beaver Brand Hats held its final sale, and people from across the country poured in for the auction.

A new study found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat, a centerpiece of Illinois' Abraham Lincoln museum, ever actually belonged to Lincoln. A WBEZ report says findings ...

Sorensen is wearing a buckskin outfit and beaver skin hat he had custom-made from hides he trapped or shot. Entry to the Bad Rock Settlement Museum on Monday, March 18, near Columbia Falls.