The hat is valued around $2,800. American Hat Company began in Houston in 1915, according to the company's website. The company was sold to the Maddox family in 2003 and moved its operations to Bowie.

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BOWIE, Texas -- American Hat Co. has spent more than a century making iconic cowboy hats, the world's symbol for the Wild West and the romanticized cowboy, good and bad. They've made hats for the ...

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