Chisholm Trail Boss
Baldwin’s was awarded Best Hatmaker, Small Shop, by True West Magazine for 2012.
“Gene Baldwin makes hats the old fashioned way in his shop at Sisters, Oregon, but he plays with the big boys. He just won a Best Hat national award for his latest design, beating out many big hat companies at Art of the Cowboy Makers in Loveland, Colorado. Gene’s theme is ‘Gotcha Covered,’ and he means it, making each hat with machines he has collected from the 1880s. Baldwin also specializes in custom hat bands with your choice of Indian bead work, porcupine quills, horsehair or, well, you name it; if it fits on the crown of your new hat, Gene’s gotcha covered!”
View all of True West’s and their readers’ choice awards for 2012, from best guest ranch to western book to chuckwagon to rifle to music to museum…
