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There’s something about the Lone Star State that

just gets under your skin, no matter where you

come from or what you believe. If you live here long

enough, eventually you’re going to stop thinking of

yourself as a Texan Jew or Christian or Muslim and

start thinking of yourself as a Jewish or Christian

or Muslim Texan. And it won’t be long before you

go out and buy yourself a pair of cowboy boots.

They are the reigning symbol of Texas culture for

good reason: Cowboy boots are how we tell the

world we’re Texan, and they’re also how we express

ourselves. Walk into almost any boot store in the

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state and you’ll see hundreds if not thousands of

designs and patterns and styles—and if you don’t

see something you like, there are plenty of custom

boot makers who will craft a pair just for you. It’s

only appropriate that the father of custom cowboy

boot–making in Texas was an immigrant, a Sicilian

named Salvatore Lucchese. He and his sons and

grandsons have made boots by hand in their El Paso

workshop for everyone from Teddy Roosevelt to

LBJ to Francisco Madero, the leader of the revolu-

tion that brought democracy to Mexico in the early

20th century.