Hat Shops Brimming with Style
ROMERO’S SOMBREROS. The Ruidoso shop, specializing in custom hats and refurbishing, might as well be a museum. James Romero has spent decades gathering and rehabbing a massive collection of beaver…
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Hat Fitting 101 with Charlie Overbey
“I’VE DONE HATS for everybody from the Black Crowes to Beyoncé to Tim McGraw,” says Charlie Overbey, founder of Lone Hawk Hats, which has locations in Madrid and Los Angeles. “With country music being…
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Kick Up Your Heels for Vintage Boots
I come from a ranching and rodeo family, so boots have been part of my life forever. We have over 400 pairs of boots. I think at least 250 of those are women’s. We have new and vintage Western wear…
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Step Up Your Custom Boot Game
WENDY LANE HENRY was ready to try something different. By the 1990s, she’d realized her dream of opening a cowboy-boot store, Back at the Ranch, in Santa Fe. But the Western-wear fashion industry was…
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Earn Your Spurs in Silversmithing
OUT WHERE THE HIGH PLAINS meet Route 66, people from all over the world are drawn to the Cowboy Arts/Western Silversmithing associate’s degree program at Mesalands Community College, in Tucumcari…
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This Sculpture Depicts the Cowboys of the Original JAL Ranch
Brian Norwood's sculpture The Trail Ahead depicts the cowboys of JAL ranch. Photograph by Brian Norwood. WHEN BRIAN NORWOOD WAS RAISING MONEY for a metal sculpture in Jal, a nearby rancher offered a…
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Quintessentially NM: Wild West
Rodeos throughout the state still celebrate the working cowboy. Photograph by Sara Maxfeldt. Trails and Rails THE SPANISH BROUGHT COWS, SHEEP, AND VAQUERO skills to New Mexico, but cowboying in the…
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Yippee-Ki-Yi-Yay
Above: One of the few known portraits of Jack Thorp. Photograph courtesy of the New Mexico History Museum and the Guy Logsdon Collection. A LONE COWBOY RIDES ACROSS a desert landscape in darkness so…
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The Year of the Cowboy
Above: A young cowboy keeps an eye on the rodeo action during the 2013 Truth or Consequences Fiesta. This year’s event is May 5–7, with a parade, live music, and the Sierra County Sheriff’s Posse…
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