From: overhung@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article , photodoglv@yahoo.com says...   
      
   >how authentic is   
   >today's modern cowboy boot to what would have been found in say 1870-1880?   
      
   Here are three web pages that seem to pretty much   
   agree on the origins of the boot we know today   
   as "cowboy boots."   
      
   http://www.cowboyboot.to/history.htm   
      
   http://www.cowboy-western-boots.com/cowboy-boot-history.html   
      
   http://www.justinboots.com/HERITAGE/default.asp   
      
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