25 Top Custom Bootmakers
ABILENEJames Leddy Boots 1602 N. Treadaway Boulevard 915-677-7811The nephew of boot king M. L. Leddy is now royalty himself, and he runs a real family business: He does the cutting, his wife and...
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TopThe top, also known as the shaft, is the artist’s canvas: Here is where the most detail work is done (although, ironically, if you’re a man, the top stays hidden under your pants legs unless you’re...
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Alive and Kicking
Like so much else in Texas these days, apparel—the kind that proudly proclaims our Western heritage—ain’t what it used to be. Jeans were co-opted 25 years ago, when Gloria Vanderbilt designer-labeled...
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The Next 25 Bootmakers
AMARILLOBeck Cowboy Boots 6666 W. Amarillo Boulevard 806-356-6626 www.beckboots.com The current father-daughther team carries on the family tradition that twins Earl and Bearl started in 1916....
View ArticleFathers and Sins
Ten years after Jay Lemberger shot himself dead at 21, his parents, Nancy and Pat, and his two sisters, Tami and Heidi, gathered around the family’s coffee table in the living room of their home in...
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