The Men Behind HotBoots

FACT: Did you know that "straight" men now make-up about 25% of the visitors to HotBoots.com? And, did you know 100% of all returning visitors love boots. Yep. It's true.

(Photo: Larry Kenney and his partner, Bill visiting Paul Bond in Nogales, AZ.)

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WANTED: Dead or Alive

UPDATE!
A Denton County man is in now in jail having been charged with felony theft of these prize boots. (Read more from The Dallas Morning News.)

UPDATE!
Mr. Chappell's boots have been recovered and are headed back to the shop! ...Thanks to evidence uncovered in jail interviews and multiple house searches. Read more at The Dallas Morning News and khou.com.

These beautiful hand carved cowboy boots were made by Mr. Carl Chappell. They are pictured in my book on page 274 ...and were stolen from Trail Town Custom Leather Shop in Saint Jo, Texas, on 30 July, 2007 at approximately 10:00am.

Thanks to the Dallas Morning News for the details provided in this story. Be sure to listen to the audio file.

Anyone with information should contact John Glaze at Trail Town Custom Leather, 940-995-2600 or the Saint Jo Police Department at 940-995-2337. (Click here for a larger view of the shop's REWARD poster.)

Cowboy Boots p. 250

Click the Gabcast play button to hear more about those great eagle boots on page 250 of my book, Cowboy Boots: The Art & Sole. Click back to read an earlier blog entry about the very same boots.

Shoe are you? Cowboy Boots!

Recently, I was interviewed by Miss Meghan Cleary, America's shoe expert on her stylish weekly podcast, "Shoe are you?"

You can listen to the podcast and view a few photos on Miss Meghan's blog.

Meghan is the author of The Perfect Fit: What your shoes say about you. A swell little book, with a special chapter dedicated to "the cowboy boot girl."

(You can listen to this and Meghan's other podcast episodes on iTunes or PodShow.)

Tune in this Thursday

3:15pm (Central) Thursday, 21 June 2007... Yours truly will be interviewed by Dan Gresham of KOLE Newsradio FOX 1340 & 1380 AM. It's a 30 minute live call-in afternoon talk show heard throughout the Southeast Texas and Houston area.

Talk Line: (409) 835-1340 or toll free (866) 835-1340

And..thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can tune-in from your desktop by visiting http://www.newsradiofox.com/index.asp. (I've had the best luck using Microsoft explorer.)

So plan to tune in and call in with your cowboy boot opinions and questions. It'll be fun!

Audio: Interview with Bootmaker Paul Bond

Thanks to NPR and Linda Wertheimer for the great interview with Paul Bond, His Boots Are Made for Talkin' About.

Paul Bond was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1992 for his bareback bronc riding, rodeo trick riding and bootmaking.

Today, the only other bootmaker with this honor is John S. Justin, Jr. (grandson of Justin Boots founder) who was inducted as "Great Westerner" in 1999.

For your very own pair of Paul Bond cowboy boots call 520-281-0512 or visit paulbondboots.com

(A reminder to support your local public radio.)