The Cowboy Boot Love Affair Begins

To begin the tale of a woman and her cowboy boots, we look to Austinite Kathy Williams. She was on a mission to find the perfect pair of boots, but just like the Waylon Jennings’ song states, Kathy “was looking for love in all the wrong places.” Well at least until she walked down the women’s cowboy boot aisle in Allen’s Boots, that is. It was a beautiful day back in 1994 that she discovered her pair of deep black cherry leather Lucchese boots and the relationship is still going strong 14 years later.

In Love with Cowboy Boots? Really?

Now I know what you are probably thinking, can you really be in love with a pair of cowboy boots? The answer is “yes,” because the day you find the perfect pair of cowboy boots is the day you take on a whole new attitude. You know you look good. You know that you are tough. And you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that you can two-step like never before. This is what the perfect pair of cowboy boots can do for you.

This is what the perfect pair of cowboy boots did for Kathy Williams.

What’s Not to Love About Cowboy Boots?

If you take care of your cowboy boots, they will look great and last forever. Cowboy boots always seem to be hip. The style of a cowboy boot hasn’t changed over the years and they seem to go with everything from jeans to shorts to skirts and dresses. Finally, they are so comfortable, if you get the proper boot fit, that you can wear them all day and right into the night.

So now that you know that true love can exist with a cowboy boot, come on in to Allen’s Boots and fall in love today.

You can read more about Kathy Williams’ boot adventures in the Austin American-Statesman

Horsewomen Are Invited to a Cow Girl Journey

Cow girls, saddle up! On May 7, 2008, Cow Girl Adventures will set out on its first trip, which offers an authentic Wild West travel sojourn to cow girls, their cowboys and those who simply enjoy the great outdoors from a female perspective. The company, founded by true cow girls Christy Cramer and Sheila Davis, will coordinate three trips this year in scenic rural Colorado. Group size is limited - only six cow girls per trip! - so you may want to visit Cow Girl Adventures before they fill up.

Cow Girls Should Be Ready For Anything

Cramer warns would-be cow girls to be prepared for some distinctively non-urban activities during the first six-day trip. Cow Girl Adventures has an arrangement with a working horse ranch, where cow girls will rope, ride and herd. Make sure to pack your toughest cow girl jeans and dustiest cowboy boots for this one.

The second cow girl adventure takes riders to Williams Fork in August. Sited in an aspen grove in the midst of the Flat Top Wilderness Range, Williams Fork promises to be a natural oasis to cow girls who want a more luxurious Western ambiance. Planned diversions include yoga, massage and trail riding.

The final cow girl trek of 2008 takes place in Browns Park, a mountain valley at the north end of the state, near the Sand Wash Basin Wild Mustang Preserve. Once the refuge of ranchers, trappers and outlaws, Browns Park offers cow girls an intimate glimpse of those eponymous wild mustangs as they run and forage.

You Go, Cow Girl

The Cow Girl Adventures treks cost from $1200-1400 per person. Check it out and see if it might be the perfect vacation for you. And if you decide to go, don’t forget to get fitted for new boots and shop for Western wear at Allens Boots!

Cowboy Boot Day isn’t what they’re calling the National Day of the American Cowboy, but at Allens Boots, that’s how we think of it.

Not that we’re complaining about the National Day of the American Cowboy. Just the opposite, in fact. But if we’re going to join the Senate in honoring “the contributions of the cowboy into the history of the American West,” you’ll have to cut us a little slack if we call it Cowboy Boot Day. It’s a heckuva lot shorter and it sounds better to us cowboy boot blog diehards.

Senate Resolution 130, or “the Cowboy Boot Day resolution,” was sponsored by Senator Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming) in response to organizing efforts from American Cowboy magazine, and it named last July 28, 2007, as the third annual Cowboy Boot Day. According to the official announcement, the celebration intends to “encourage Americans to live the values and the code of the cowboy boot.”

Okay, okay, so we stuck the word “boot” after the word “cowboy.” But aren’t they the same thing? Aren’t both cowboys and cowboy boots noted for these same characteristics?

• rugged
• hard-working
• uncomplicated
• strong
• low-maintenance (after being properly broken or boot-fit, of course)
• uncomplaining

We’d argue that a Cowboy Boot Day is just as apt a celebration of the cowboy esthetic as National Day of the American Cowboy. Plus, for gender equity, we’d like to tell the folks at American Cowboy that it’s a lot easier to have a Cowboy Boot Day than to set up celebrations for both cowboys and cowgirls. Don’t you think?

So as you set out your calendar for 2008, please pencil in Cowboy Boot Day. It’s the fourth Saturday in July. And make sure you shop for cowboy boots from Allens. Get those boots, shined, polished and ready for the occasion. Cowboy Boot Day!