Custom, handmade boots, one pair with the Arizona flag inlaid into the leather, another with stars, another with eagle feathers and silverwork, dozens of pairs. It's not just business that makes him dress Western every day, Flint says. Being Comanche Indian, my people were great warriors, then became great ranchers, so they adopted the clothing, very much a tradition for my people. For him, there's a larger meaning in cowboy boots and other Western paraphernalia. It's the spirit of the old Western movies he has watched countless times, the myth of a sharp, clear boundary between good and bad.
Life is hard work and persistence.
I think a lot of the old Westerns taught us that. Wearing cowboy boots, whether handmade or off the rack, makes us a little less buttoned down, a bit more rugged and willing to be different. Wearing a cowboy boot is like exiting the superhighway and tooling down a back road. Look at Bogle holding the boot he made for his son. His son is in his 60s, but son and boot are still his babies.