Cowboy Hat (Fallout: New Vegas)

Cowboy hats are common headwear in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
All variants have 1 Damage Threshold, and 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 (and any other head item with the perk Jury Rigging).

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.

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.

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

 * A desperado cowboy hat is lying on a table in Mick & Ralph's secret room. it can be picked up and stolen for a small Karma loss.
 * Meyers is wearing a Desperado.
 * A Desperado can be purchased at the Crimson Caravan Company.
 * If you decide to help Ringo fight the Powder Gangers in Goodsprings one of the attacking powder gangers is wearing a Desperado Cowboy hat.
 * 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.
 * Easy Pete is wearing a Cattleman cowboy hat in Goodsprings.
 * Three Old Cowboy Hats can be purchased from Mick at Mick and Ralph's in Freeside. Two Old Cowboy Hats can be found in New California Republic Correctional Facility; One 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.
 * One of the Powder Gangers camped out behind Whittaker Farmstead is wearing a Desperado.
 * Gunderson hired hand is wearing a Cattleman cowboy hat as he stands beside Heck Gunderson in the Ultra-Luxe main lobby. A Cattleman cowboy hat can also be found in the room leading to the steam room in the Ultra-Luxe's bathhouse.
 * Gunderson hired hands in the Ultra-Luxe Penthouse suite wear Rattan Cowboy hats, but must be looted from their corpses.
 * Powder gangers sometimes wear random cowboy hats.
 * If you have the Wild Wasteland trait, one of the interactions with Rex is that someone has fallen down a well (follow Rex's page for location and further detail), down the well is a Raw Hide Cowboy hat.
 * A Rawhide Cowboy hat is found in the Lucky 38 Casino on the main Casino floor, through the main entrance of the building, it is in a room towards the left handside of the Casino floor containing a number of unlocked safes holding many chems and bottlecaps. On top of one of the safes is the Rawhide Cowboy Hat.
 * The female traveling merchant who wanders in and out of Novac often has a Rattan Cowboy Hat.
 * Daisy Whitman in Novac wears a Rattan Cowboy Hat, but it must be looted from her corpse or reverse pickpocketed.
 * A NCR trooper wandering around the New Vegas Strip wears the old cowboy variant.
 * The recruitable companion Rose of Sharon Cassidy wears a rattan variant, but since it is default apparel, it cannot be taken from her inventory
 * A Rattan Cowboy Hat can be found in the Zion Ranger Station.

Appearances
The cowboy hats appear only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * With the Rattan and Desperado cowboy hats, when the player attempts to equip it through a hotkey, it will freeze the game.

Behind the scenes

 * The "Rawhide cowboy hat" is a reference to the 1959-1965 western television series, "Rawhide", starring Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates. The hat is nearly identical to the hat Yates wore.

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