John Foster|Accidental Mysteries
April 29, 2016
Made for Walking
In the late 1980s, Marty Snortum was a photographer living in Texas. He photographed boots, among other things, for the catalogs of several manufacturers in El Paso. Though El Paso was the boot capital of the world, the number of boot makers had diminished and the great artists and craftsmen of yesteryear were becoming a thing of the past. Snortum noticed that most of the boot companies he shot for would put one glorified pair of hand-tooled boots on the catalog cover as a showpiece, but once inside the catalog, the boots were more focused on the hard-wearing cowboy and farmer variety. So after some research and a lot of hard work, he saw a niche and his custom boot making company Rocketbuster Handmade Custom Boots was born.
And even though China is now in the business, and they make more boots than El Paso, in Texas, quantity will never equate to quality in the boot business.
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