From: laro@idworld.net   
      
   "Todd"  wrote in message   
   news:Rqdcc.31861$Ig.9391@pd7tw2no...   
   > Cowboy boots, as we've come to know them with their high heels, we're only   
   "invented" in   
   > the 1870s. A bootmaker in Kansas first shaped the heel and sold them to   
   cowboys spending   
   > their trail money at the railhead towns.   
   >   
   > Billy the Kid wore them too, having ordered a pair by mail.   
   > --   
   > Todd   
      
      
   Todd, that is fascinating piece of information!  Things like that always   
   seem difficult to pin down.   Some things, so routine at the time, are just   
   never written about!   What is your source for that information ?   ...I am   
   really curious to know where it is documented by a reliable source.   GTT   
      
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