Lex Anteinternet: All the men were well shod in good looking riding ...

Lex Anteinternet: All the men were well shod in good looking riding ...: A ll the men were well shod in good looking riding boots, except the cook. I learned that the boots were mostly made by a boot maker named H...

All the men were well shod in good looking riding boots, except the cook.

All the men were well shod in good looking riding boots, except the cook. I learned that the boots were mostly made by a boot maker named Hyer, of Olathe, Kansas, and were generally black in color. All had seventeen inch tops, with a two or two and a half inch heel, slanted well forward, so that the weight of the foot came forward of the heel, and consequently the stirrup was held under the arch of the rider’s instep, as it should be.”

John K. Rollinson, in his 1941 memoir, Pony Trails In Wyoming: Hoofprints of a Cowboy and U.S. Ranger.