The 1830s were fraught times for hatters everywhere. Fashionable men clung to the beaver hat for centuries, but in the early 1800s that fashion was threatened by over-hunting the chubby rodents.

Aghaaˈ Hat Co. is an Indigenous-owned and led hat and beadwork brand based in El Paso, Texas, that centers ancestral ...

PENDLETON, Ore. — In some parts of the country, a man can be judged by the cut of his suit or his designer tie. Here, in a town known for its rodeo culture, men size one another up by the quality of ...

PENDLETON, Ore. – In some parts of the country, a man can be judged by the cut of his suit or his designer tie. Here, in a town known for its rodeo culture, men size each other up by the quality of ...

To get in on the hat trick this season there are plenty of haberdashers of all kinds in the borough — from those that carry the finest beaver fur hats to shops that stock the hippest of headpieces. A ...

Samantha Youngren couldn't help slipping her hands into a pair of pure white polar fox mitts Wednesday night at the Duluth Boat, Sports, Travel and RV Show. Next, she and her husband, Alex, had to ...

Hats have long fulfilled many roles, from functionality to symbols of self-expression and social status. One iconic hat of the last two centuries is the top hat. Two 19th-century silk top hats in the ...

Reading natural history is fraught with a particular kind of peril. The typical progression from “here are amazing facts” to “there used to be [X] million of these majestic creatures, until humans ...

ON LAKE VERMILION, NEAR COOK -- It's 10 below zero on New Year's Day, and Tom Yankowiak of Cook has appointments to keep with 15 beaver huts. Yankowiak is near one of those lodges now, chipping ...

Mountain Man Mike Nowak may be a Grim Reaper of Michigan’s beavers, but no one takes a toothier pride in their accomplishments. One of Nowak’s favorite trophies is the biggest beaver work he’s seen in ...