A pair of boots made for Tucsonan Ed F. Echols are at the Artizona Historical Society Museum.
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My friend Oscar Davis went back into the tack room for his revolver when he found out I was going to ride his horse “Billy” in my sneakers.
”This is just in case your foot slides through the stirrup and he spooks and starts dragging you down the riverbed,” he said, as he loaded cartridges into the cylinder.
”You’d really shoot Billy to save me?”
”Who said anything about shootin’ Billy?”
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Cowboy boots have a heel for a reason. And their ankle/shin coverage protects against snakebite and goatheads.
They’re still worn hereabouts for their everyday utility. Mostly, though, cowboy boots are a fashion statement in our urban setting.
They look best with blue jeans, but you see them on lawyers in suits and women in skirts.
The monogrammed boots shown here are the fancy-dress boots of a genuine cowboy.
Ed F. Echols was a champion calf roper who was instrumental in starting the annual Tucson rodeo, La Fiesta de los Vaqueros.
The boots were made of alligator by Lucchese Boot Co. of San Antonio.
They were custom-made to accommodate Echols’ broken foot, said Laraine Daly Jones, collections manager for the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Tucson, where the boots reside.
