Henry Camargo opened Camargo’s Western Boots, in Mercedes, in 1980.. In 1973 I started working for the bootmaker Rios of Mercedes, a big company in a small town.We were doing alligator, ostrich ...

Just like the cowboy per se, these boots became the stuff of legend. Photo: Back at the Ranch Nowadays, cowboys of yore, and what they wore, are romanticized—especially in the Wild West Shows of ...