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.

The Desperado Cowboy Hat can often be used to repair other hats (Old cowboy hat, Boomers hat and the Rattan cowboy hat, but these hats cannot 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.

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. For Locations please follow Rawhide Cowboy Hat. (on Raul the raw hide cowboy hat appears as a dark brown leather alike the Pre-war Hat (Fallout New Vegas))

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 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, unless you get the Jury Rigger perk).
 * 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.
 * Rose of Sharon Cassidy is wearing a Rattan Cowboy hat.
 * 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 that spawn at Hunter's Farm may be wearing a Desperado hat (beware of Fire Geckos).
 * 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.
 * Powder gangers sometimes wear random cowboy hats.
 * If you have the Wild Wasteland perk, 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 an 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.
 * Gunderson hired hands in the Ultra-Luxe Penthouse suite wear Rattan Cowboy hats, but must be looted from their corpses.
 * A NCR trooper wandering around the New Vegas Strip wears the old cowboy variant.

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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