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Offline Shotgun Franklin

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A Stampede String
« on: January 30, 2013, 03:17:44 PM »

I recalled seeing vintage photos showing a Stampede String  on a Western Hat but have never seen how they were attached to the hat. Anyone know?
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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2013, 04:43:53 PM »
Try looking in the 'back pages' both here, and on the 'NCOWS Forum' - this one's been discussed at great length.

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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2013, 05:23:51 PM »
  Shotgun Franklin,

Here is one way (when a hat does not come with it)... Don't think I would trust it in a windstom, but for normal windy conditions ..

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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2013, 05:40:28 PM »
Shotgun Franklin,

Here is another several versions ...

http://www.squidoo.com/stampedestring
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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 08:48:50 PM »
St. George is right, this one has been beat to death before. Do a search on the NCOWS forum. Essentially if you were a central or northern plains cowboy they appear to be less than common, not the least like the ones you buy at Corral West for $20, and they were never called a stampede string during the period - bonnet string and such, but never a stampede string. Hope this doesn't open up another lengthy discussion again.
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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2013, 08:20:01 PM »
If you wear your hat fitted right there is no need for a windstring. ;)
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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2013, 07:39:05 AM »
If you wear your hat fitted right there is no need for a windstring. ;)


oh yeah there is. Attach it to your mittens so you don't lose them on the dance floor.
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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2013, 09:12:48 AM »

oh yeah there is. Attach it to your mittens so you don't lose them on the dance floor.


That's what Bill Cosby calls an idiot string.  BTW Roo, in your days cowboying in Montana did you ever see anyone but barrel racers and trail riders wearing such a thing on their hat?
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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2013, 10:51:56 PM »
That's what Bill Cosby calls an idiot string.  BTW Roo, in your days cowboying in Montana did you ever see anyone but barrel racers and trail riders wearing such a thing on their hat?


Uusally one's that been to Corral West or the like. I had see some pretty fancy ones come out of Deer Lodge and some local artistians made them along with other things. Both hair and hide. There is a Charlie Russell quote about a cowboy hitching hair at Deer Lodge, if I recall. This would give you a time line.  Normally the cowboys just got their hats wet and wore them dry then they would fit their heads.  The boss man don't pay you to chase your hat or roll your own. Lite 'm up and keep riding.
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Re: A Stampede String
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2013, 07:50:49 AM »
Hide and hair pretties from Deer Lodge, spurs, saddles and other tack from Canyon City.  I know a western store, not Corral West, that their business in strings went way down now that they got a guy working in the hat dept that knows how to fit hats. Small loss, the satisfied customers that bring other folks in to buy hats more than makes it up. ;)
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