Moccasin-style footwear collections spark leap of success and faith
By Lynn Ascrizzi
It’s easy to recall a business that has the charmingly quirky name, Broncy Donkey Leather Company. It trips off the tongue and delights the ears, and Read more
Sharlot Battin has made a full career out of building shoes, boots and sandals for Broadway actors — and beyond.
Who’d think that someone born and raised in the old railroad town that is Whitefish, Read more
By Nick Pernokas
Tim Bishop was raised in the small, eastern New Mexico town of Logan. Tim’s high school had only 13 in his graduating class. In this rural ranching community, there were only a few choices in lifestyle Read more
A Skater’s Dream
by Gene Fowler
Figure skating legend Brian Boitano, who won a gold medal at the 1988 Olympics, still has the first pair of skates he got at the age of nine. Why hang on to Read more
Wes Shugart: Makin’ Boots in Nashville
Wes Shugart heard the call of leather back around 2011.
At the time, the Nashville-based cowboy bootmaker was a builder of multi-million-dollar homes. “But I was stressed out, big time, Read more
LIVIN’ A TEXAS LEGACY
Most fine, custom cowboy bootmakers have at least a passing awareness of the artists and artisans who preceded them. But few live that legacy as fully as Zephan Parker, who hangs his bootmaking shingle in Read more
Soul to Sole: A Bootmaker’s Redemption
By Gene Fowler
Every fine Read more
You probably noticed those old boots over in the corner. Leaning up against that canvas suitcase like an old dog begging for one more road trip. Orange tops. Black bottoms. Yeah, I know, not to everybody’s taste. Read more
by Liisa Andreassen
When Dan Hickman couldn’t find the right boots to fit his feet, he decided to take matters into his own hands – quite literally – and has been making boots since 1975. Bootmaking was not really a job for him; it Read more
‘Cowboy Booties’ Ascending
Shoe and bootmaker Murphy Thiel of Run and Hide Leather in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, knows a thing or two about taking it to the next level. She moved back to the Eastern Seaboard just recently Read more
