I do believe that Walterhog has the makings of being a real cowboy type! All he needs is a 10gallon hat and a horse between his legs.
I am positive he would have no problems either with the ladies but might have to get a bottle of Viagra to put in his saddle bags. Yippie I Yea! Ride em Walterhog.
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Perhaps we could all take up a collection to get Walterhog one of those 10 gallon hats. I am sure Mr. Saeed could give us the correct hat size of Walterhog but the price goes skyhigh after 10-gallons. I suppose we could just guess a size! 12-gallon........don't know.
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Some cowboy hats have been called "ten gallon" hats. The term came into use about 1925.[27] There are multiple theories for how the concept arose.
Stetson hat company boasted that the tight weave of most Stetsons hats made them sufficiently waterproof to be used as a bucket. Early print advertising by Stetson showed a cowboy giving his horse a drink of water from a hat.[28] However, even the Stetson company notes that a "ten gallon" hat only holds 3 quarts (about 3 L instead of 40 L).[29][30]
Another theory is that the term "ten gallon" is a corruption of the Spanish term "galón", or galloon, a type of narrow braided trimming around the crown, possibly a style adapted by Spanish cowboys. When Texas cowboys misunderstood the word "galón" for "gallon", the popular, though incorrect, legend may have been born. According to Reynolds and Rand, "The term ten-gallon did not originally refer to the holding capacity of the hat, but to the width of a Mexican sombrero hatband, and is more closely related to this unit of measurement by the Spanish than to the water-holding capacity of a Stetson.”[30]
Best parody of the Saturday Matinee Western has to be "Rustler's Rhapsody."
Yakima knute being the most famous and there were others but most of the leading stars were not. John Wayne got into ranching after he got famous in movies. that was much more common for someone to play a cowboy and decide to get involved ranching than the other way around.
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