Sharlot Battin has made a full career out of building shoes, boots and sandals for Broadway actors — and beyond. 

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

Who’d think that someone born and raised in the old railroad town that is Whitefish, Read more

Andy Barta gained expertise in the business from the toughest of teachers  

By Lynn Ascrizzi 

After working for 55-plus years in the hide and leather business, Andy Barta knows a thing or two about weathering the ups and 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

WOODENWULF 

by Gene Fowler 

As I sat wondrously immersed in the universe of the television program Yellowstone during its recently concluded fourth season—the hats, the horses, ranchers, cowboys, pretty women, gorgeous country, and a lone guitar—the notion that Read more

By Nick Pernokas 

The June heat came off the tarmac in shimmery waves outside the cattle pens at the Oklahoma City stockyards. It was just another sale day, and the cowboy enjoyed moving the cattle up the alleys on Read more