How A Dying New Jersey Boy Created Stetson
The true story of the Stetson hat is one of the most extraordinary entrepreneurship origin stories in American history — and almost no one knows it. John Batterson Stetson was a dying young man from New Jersey, given months to live by his doctor, who made his way west with almost nothing in his pocket. What happened next — on a frontier trail in the Rocky Mountains, using only scraps of animal fur — would eventually produce the largest hat factory in the world and an icon that defined an entire civilization. How did a man with no money, no [See More…]
