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Carlson, Laurie Meade, Holly, Illustrator

Boss of the Plains: The Hat That Won the West

32 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-2479-7
(1) K-3 When hat-maker John Batterson Stetson went West as a young man in 1859, people wore any old thing on their heads. How Stetson's ungainly but perfectly adapted thick-fur felt creation became an indispensable part of Western attire is the subject of this lively picture book. Carlson's storytelling prose sets the scene and tells the tale concisely and enticingly, and Meade's mixed-media illustrations have an appropriately rough-and-ready feel. Bib.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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