The realities depicted in the earliest pages of the document suggest that it should be dated to what is known as the Hat Age, some time after the introduction of rounded crown and flat brim but before the proliferation of styles that characterized the coming decades (pinch front, cattleman, telescope). Environmental factors have eroded most of what was once legible in these forty pages, which are banded with a worn leather thong, but a few phrases can be salvaged: “black fur felt,” “flat top fit,” “modified sagebrush,” “Wasey,” “open crown crease.” Most adhere closely enough to what is known, but one phrase, clearly legible on page sixteen, evades simple explanation: “Battery-operated beanie.” Had this been the case, how to explain the absence of ranches and rustlers riding around as tiny propellors turned comically atop their heads?
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