| I would be very very surprised if you know | | | | protection because there were a lot of dangers |
| someone who don't what cowboy boots are. We | | | | on the trail like barbed wires and snakes. An |
| all know what boots are and it's possible that a lot | | | | unidentified cowboy during that time is believed to |
| of you have used them since the day we started | | | | be the inventor of cowboy boots. |
| wearing shoes, but not everyone knows where it | | | | The cowboy went to a shoemaker in Kansas or |
| came from. That's is the topic of this article - The | | | | Texas in 1870's with ideas to improve their |
| origin of cowboy boots. | | | | footwear. The shoemaker was asked by the |
| Before we completely go to the topic, for the | | | | cowboy to make a new kind of boot with a |
| sake of those who don't know, the definition of | | | | square or narrower toe so they could get their |
| boots according to wikipedia is a type of | | | | foot easily into their strups. He also wanted a |
| footwear that covers at least the foot and the | | | | bigger heel to keep his foot in the stirrup while he |
| ankle and sometimes extends up to the knee or | | | | rode and to get more traction when walking on |
| even the hip. Most boots have a heel that is | | | | rocky terrains. The shoemaker did it and they |
| clearly distinguishable from the rest of the sole, | | | | designed to fit tightly at the bottom so it would |
| even if the two are made of one piece. | | | | not fall off but looser at the top so that when a |
| According to a lot of websites about cowboy | | | | cowboy was in trouble, he could easily wiggle out |
| boots, no one has been able to find out who the | | | | of the boots. |
| really inventor or designer was. But the history of | | | | So that was the birth of the cowboy boots and |
| cowboy boots started back in the time of civil | | | | it's been modified from generations to generations |
| war. Cowboys needed a shoes that will give them | | | | for all kinds of purposes. |