Andrew Boomer rounds out a high school teaching career with an ever-evolving creative sideline. 

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

It all began with “a cheap, mass-produced pair of spur straps,” said Andrew Boomer of Bluff Dale, Texas, as he began Read more

“If you can dream it, I can make it”

by Gene Fowler 

Mad Leather, Whitefish, MT. Bespoke custom leather apparel by tailor Milen Krastev and his wife, designer, Jenny Swank Krasteva. Photographs by Mandy Mohler of Field Guide Designs

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by Gene Fowler 

“We’re a bunch of rednecks here cuttin’ up dead cow skins,” jokes George Canfield, the self-described “chief bottle washer” at EDC Leather in Springfield, Missouri. Though his self-effacing humor and Ozark-y charm makes for a fun Read more

by Gene Fowler 

Prosser Martin, Del Rio’s Cowboy Outfitter 

“If made of leather, we make it” 

The late Prosser Martin of Del Rio, Texas, first crossed my radar in the 1980s, when I read a book about Dr. Read more

By Bill

Let’s jump back in time about 150 years. A great fire has turned Chicago into a city of ashes. The James Gang had robbed its first train robbery. Cowboys are driving thousands of cattle up from Texas Read more