“What we believe first and foremost with a cowboy boot is that it [must] follow the traditional standards for construction,” Will Ormes tells me, with an accent so strong he has to be a born-and-bred ...

Way back in 1912, when Leon Leonwood Bean set out to make a boot that would keep his feet warm and dry during hunting trips in the western Maine backwoods, he probably had no idea his footwear would ...