Slim, I thought I had you taught better by now, go to our friend Solomon Butcher and do the cowboys search, since with yer brandin' irun you try to do the cowboy personna. Now look at the hats on the range cowboys. Put that hat in the back a yer pickup fer another month and it will look right. To bad the hat I'm wearin' in the picture in "The Shootist" don't show up better, I'll bring it to the NCOWS connvention, it ain't attacked anyone in a while.
Often the brim up in front had a use, makes it easier to shoot a rifle with tang sights, George Custer had some sort of hook and eye arangement for his. Myself I just use a straight pin to hold the brim up on the ugly hat when I shoot the Sharps.