Western Boots

Howdee Ya'll this is ole Rex Beerbot here to talk to you about Western Boots! The best way to start any discussion about western boots is to bring up the topic of cowboys!

So where did western boots get there start? Western boots got there starts through cowboys of course! Merriam Webster's 1986 Dictionary defines a cowboy, cowpoke, or cowpuncher, as: "one who tends cattle or horses, especially a mounted cattle ranch worker." The word cowboy is actually a transliteration of the original Spanish word the "vaquero” where “vaca” means cow. The English term prior to the adoption of the Spanish Vaquero and subsequently cowboy was "Drover." It was in the open spaces of New Mexico, in America where the original American cowboy, the Spanish vaquero evolved along with the original western saddle, cowboy methods, (e.g. roping), and vocabulary, beginning along the Rio Grande river basin. But cowboys existed before that, andas early as the 1760s when Indians and Mexicans were recruited by the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church to cattle ranch in California. The agricultural practice only began in Texas in the 1820s but the lifestyle didn’t permeate the region until the railroad, albeit incomplete, reached Abilene, Kansas.... read more bout the history cowboys and western boots