Cowboy Hat (Fallout: New Vegas)

Cowboy hats are common headwear in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
All variants have no damage threshold, but provide a bonus of 1 to Perception, as they shield the wearer's eyes from the sun. They can be repaired with Pre-War hats.

The Desperado Cowboy Hat can often be used to repair other hats (Old cowboy hat, Boomers Hat, Rattan Cowboy Hat, more?), but these other hats can not be used to repair the Desperado.

Cattleman cowboy hat
A straw cowboy hat with a wide, slightly curved brim, a slightly indented top, and a ring of vents halfway up.

Desperado cowboy hat
A black cowboy hat with a large brim, curved to the sides, and a thin white band at the base. Interestingly, the Desperado cowboy hat can be used to repair other cowboy hats, yet can only itself be repaired by another Desperado cowboy hat or a Pre-War Hat. With the Jury Rigger Perk it can also be repaired with - surprisingly - Authority Glasses (which you're probably wearing anyway if you're wearing this hat), Reading Glasses and the like.

Old cowboy hat
A brown top hat with a thin flat brim; with a black-and-white feather stuck in a large rust-colored band at the base. Wearing this can bypass the strip black screen glitch.

Rattan cowboy hat
A straw cowboy hat with a wide brim, curved to the sides, indents in the top and at the temples, and a thin black band at the base.

Rawhide cowboy hat
A light brown uncured leather cowboy hat with a slight peak; a thick, flat brim; and a thin black band at the base.

Locations

 * 1) Meyers is wearing a Desperado.
 * 2) A Desperado can be purchased at the Crimson Caravan camp.
 * 3) If you decide to help Ringo fight the Powder Gangers in Goodsprings one of the attacking powder gangers is wearing a Desperado Cowboy hat which can be taken from him when he is killed (so try not to hit his head or blow him up if you want it in good condition - they're rare and hard to fix, until you get the Jury Rigger perk.
 * 4) A Desperado hat can be found on a Dead Mercenary east of the Goodsprings Cemetery, just south east of a Dead Prospector, and just north of the Abandoned Shack. Beware of the 5-15 Giant radscorpions.
 * 5) Easy Pete is wearing a Cattleman cowboy hat in Goodsprings.
 * 6) Three Old Cowboy Hats can be purchased from Mick at Mick and Ralph's in Freeside.2 Old Cowboy Hats can be found in New California Republic Correctional Facility; 1 in Cell Block B, but it has to be stolen, and the other can be found in the possession of a Powder Ganger in Cell Block A. Another hat can be bought at the Crimson Caravan camp.
 * 7) One of the Powder Gangers that spawn at Hunter's Farm may be wearing a Desperado hat (beware of Fire Geckos).
 * 8) One of the Powder Gangers camped out behind Whittaker Farmstead is wearing a Desperado.

Appearances
The cowboy hats appear in Fallout: New Vegas.