HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It's almost rodeo time, and if you don't have boots, you may have to wait till next year if you want a custom pair from a Houston boot maker. Parker Custom Boots takes eight ...

Handmade cowboy boots line the walls of Republic Boot Co. on 11th Street, filling the air with the smell of leather. The staccato of a hammer from a backroom punctuates the whirring of machines more ...

It’s a typical day at Rocketbuster headquarters, in the historic Union Plaza District of downtown El Paso. Three men sit at a cutting table, meticulously hand-tooling unfinished leather; nearby, ...

Stumbling upon an outdated website usually means the domain’s been left for dead. I figured buildaboot.com — a joint project between White’s and Baker’s, the largest distributor of White’s, WESCO and ...

You could say El Paso has a foot in the recently released "80 for Brady" movie, specifically Jane Fonda's. The star wears a custom-designed pair of boots from Rocketbuster Handmade Custom Boots in the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- "Hand-cut, handmade and handed down is what custom boot making is really all about," beamed Parker Custom Boots owner Zephan Parker. Inspired by American history, Parker set ...

The gregarious Alan Bell understudied with Tex Robin in Coleman (see below) before going solo. Twenty-five years later, his is one of the state’s busiest husband-and-wife operations (Pauline Bell does ...

A Texas-based boot maker is taking custom-made alligator boots to the next level by giving customers the full experience of hunting their own bootleather. Starting this fall, Republic Boot Co. is ...

Kristen Cook Feb 14, 2013 Feb 14, 2013 Updated Oct 10, 2014 This time of year, it can take about 90 days for someone to receive a pair of custom Stewart boots. Winter and rodeo season are crazy busy ...

VERNAL, Utah — All my life I’ve looked down upon them. How could I not? Cantilevering from my legs like architectural wonders of the world, they’re unavoidable. No mere foundation, my feet are ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – John and Natalie Khadzhi came to Spokane from Bulgaria to pursue the American Dream. “I always had a dream inside me to have my own business and to grow up the family in that land,” ...