Boots!

Subject: Boots! Tue 27 Nov 2007, 2:54 pm

http://www.justinboots.com/HERITAGE/default.asp

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/JJ/dqj1.html

http://www.nocona.com/history/default.asp

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/NN/dln1.html
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Boots! Tue 27 Nov 2007, 4:56 pm

http://www.dimlights.com/boots/lore/history.htm
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Boots! Tue 27 Nov 2007, 5:59 pm

These boots are made by the same family, I remember that now. Nakona boots are fancier, for the want to be cowboys & cowgirls:)

Subject: Re: Boots! Tue 27 Nov 2007, 9:44 pm

Much of the story must be told, printed and/ or digitized somewhere, but was there a problem within the Justin family relating to the "rival" boot companies: Miss Enid's which remained in Nocona, and the Justin operation of her brothers after it moved on to Fort Worth? Perhaps their specialties were somewhat different .... as you implied, Mari ... and this helped to offset any hard feelings.

But that is an interesting geographical progression for a family of bootmakers: Indiana --> old Spanish Fork, Texas (ca. 1879) --> Nokona (both of the latter locales on the Chisholm Trail), where Enid remained --> Fort Worth, where the brothers ended up. And now, with both branches -- Nokona and Justin -- being held once again beneath a single financial/ administrative umbrella?
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Boots! Tue 27 Nov 2007, 11:10 pm

There is such a bird, Mari ~ cowpoke in boot, belt, jean and hat alone:

http://www.sidewalkcattlemens.com/

They're even celebrated down in Madisonville Razz

No place else but Texas (as they say)!
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Boots! Wed 28 Nov 2007, 8:26 pm

You can be from Texas and never slide your foot in a boot. They're cute for the kids though. Like a Star @ heaven