Cowboy Hat (Fallout: New Vegas)

The cowboy hat is a piece of headwear in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
All variants have a Damage Threshold of 1, 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, other copies of themselves, as well as any other head item with the Jury Rigging perk.

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.

All

 * Powder Gangers wear random cowboy hats.

Cattleman cowboy hat

 * Easy Pete in Goodsprings wears one.
 * The 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.
 * One can be found next to the crushed skeleton on a ledge on the end of the Narrows, just south of the Half Mouse cave entrance.

Desperado cowboy hat

 * A hat can be stolen from the table in Mick & Ralph's secret room.
 * Meyers wears one.
 * They can occasionally be purchased at the Crimson Caravan Company.
 * Can be stolen from the counter along with an old cowboy hat at Blake's booth at Crimson Caravan Company.
 * If one decides to help Ringo fight the Powder Gangers in Goodsprings, one of the attacking Powder Gangers is wearing a desperado cowboy hat.
 * One of the Powder Gangers camped out behind Whittaker farmstead is wearing one.
 * One can be found in the Aces Theater at the Tops, on the stage, sitting on a chair.
 * Heck Gunderson wears one of these.
 * These hats can be in the inventory of any random merchant that sells apparel.
 * One is found next to a skeleton on a cliff with two trees on the northeast side of the Dead Horses camp.

Old cowboy hat

 * Three can be purchased from Mick at Mick & Ralph's in Freeside.
 * Another hat can be bought at the Crimson Caravan Company.
 * An NCR trooper wandering around the New Vegas Strip wears the old cowboy variant.

Rattan cowboy hat

 * Gunderson hired hands in the Ultra-Luxe penthouse suite wear rattan cowboy hats, but they must be looted from their corpses.
 * 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 rattan cowboy hat can be found in the Zion Ranger station.

Rawhide cowboy hat

 * With the Wild Wasteland trait, one can be found in Jimmy's well.
 * One is found on the Lucky 38 casino floor, through the main entrance of the building, it is in a room towards the lefthand side of the casino floor containing a number of unlocked safes holding many chems and bottle caps. On top of one of the safes is the rawhide cowboy hat.
 * Dr. Ada Straus wears one in Novac.
 * One can be found atop a cabinet in the backstage hallway of the Tampico.

Bugs
With the rattan and desperado cowboy hats, when the player attempts to equip it through a hotkey, it will freeze the game.