Features

Don King: The Man in the Center 

By Nick Pernokas 

They say that a good writer should never interject himself into his stories. They say a lot of things. When dealing with “legends” of the West, they say when the legend outshines the fact, print the Read more

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Where There’s a Mum, There’s a Way 

Breakin’ the Rules Like Proper Brits: 

The Cambridge Satchel Story 

by Gene Fowler 

British mum Julie Deane found herself in a pickle one day back in 2008. Her eight-year-old daughter was being bullied at school and Deane decided to Read more

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Mean Jean Leather 

By Nick Pernokas 

Thirty-six-year-old Lyndsi McGee grew up in central California. In her twenties, she moved to Los Angeles. Perhaps it was the ghost of L.A.’s pop culture, that is so prevalent there, which fueled her love for 1960s Read more

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Business is Booming at Broncy Donkey Leather 

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

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Tanner Custom Leather

Heading West – I mean East – To Texas Horse Country

By Gene Fowler

Christmas morning, 1986, in Wilcox, Arizona. Eight-year-old Adam Tanner tears into his presents. His face lights up at the first glimpse of one particular gift Read more

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On the Fringe 

By B. Crawford 

People in Austin, Texas, like to live on the fringe of music, architecture, business and politics. But no one lives more on the fringe of the Austin fashion scene than Kimberly Brown, the founding force behind Read more

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Brandit Franco: Drifting No More 

By Nick Pernokas 

Brandit Franco grew up in the heart of Florida’s cowboy country. The family business was starting colts and training ranch horses. Brandit’s father, Sam Franco, took a lot of horses to ride that weren’t making it Read more

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Bill Gomer: The Teacher Rides Away

By Nick Pernokas

The 13-year-old boy sat in the shade of the air-conditioned railcar that he slept in at night. The inch-and-a-half thick harness made hard work for him as he pushed the awl blade through it. Still, his Read more

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Team Spirit is at the Core of a Year-Old, Growing Family Business 

Missouri company supplies leather and other custom cut parts, like sweatbands. And they offer leatherwork classes.  

By Lynn Ascrizzi  

Sometimes, what is small, nearly invisible and seemingly insignificant, is what holds things all together.  

Such is the case Read more

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Weinaug Leather – Classic Western with an Alien Twang

By B. Crawford

If you bring a knife to a gunfight, at least make sure it has a nice sheath. Tooling a bull on a dead cow is ironic.

These words of leatherworking wisdom come straight from Kingsbury, Texas, Read more

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