Terri Courtney says no self-respecting, working cowboy would wear her custom cowboy boots. For starters, Courtney Custom Boots cost too much - a basic, no-frills pair starts at $1,800. So, no ...

A Houston custom bootmaker delivers comfort and style in equal measure. It also now offers the chance to hunt your own ...

Custom cowboy boot maker Mickey Mussett didn't start out fancying up the elite. He's 65 now and only started making boots ten years ago, after leaving his job in advertising. The lure of leather ...

Mickey Mussett is a former advertising executive who found a new career as a bootmaker. Now, he's making custom cowboy boots out of his garage for clients that include Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.

Its walls bear photos of Autry and other cowboy greats who bought Maida's boots, and its aging machines have worked longer than some of the bootmakers.

More than 40 years ago, an old cowboy asked a teenaged Steven Parker if he wanted to learn to make cowboy boots. Years later, Parker now owns and operates Morris Boot Co., a handmade custom boot ...

MINEOLA – Alan Franklin, 51, remembers his first pair of cowboy boots and the surge of confidence that followed each time he slipped them on. He was just a boy when he acquired the footwear, but ...

The store employees master bootmakers, who create custom boots the traditional way. Head Bootmaker, Raul Cerrillo, is a third generation bootmaker.

DILLON – Bob Bugeaud had never worn a pair of custom handmade cowboy boots, let alone made a pair. Yet there the Canadian leather craftsman was with eight boot orders already in hand. “There ...

These boots are an exercise in patience. It takes Lee Miller about 40 hours to make a single pair of custom cowboy boots in his Austin, Texas workshop. And it takes four years to buy them -- if ...

At one time in Denver, Mickey said, there were 20 custom cowboy bootmakers. "And now there's like two," Mickey said. That's why even here in the city, he works to keep country alive.

Custom bootmakers in El Paso, the undisputed Cowboy Boot Capital of the World, tend to be larger operations and focus on sales not to individuals as much as to retailers in Texas and elsewhere ...