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The Boot Soul of the West is home to a great collection of vintage and designer clothing, Folk art and antiques, but the big draw is the BOOTS, with over three hundred pair on any given day, Soul is the cowboy boot capital of southern New Mexico. All adult boots are made in the USA, Mexico or Canada where folks know and love the artistry of these American icons, vintage and or handmade there is a pair for virtually everyone. The boots range in price from $60.00 for a well-loved pair from Justin or Tony Lamas to $800.00 for a pair made by Paul Bond or Rocky Carrol. Paul Bond was one of America’s premier bootmakers. Bond made boots for Charlie Daniels, Clint Eastwood, Herschel Walker, John Wayne, Johnny Cash, Kevin Costner, Frank Sinatra, Gene Autry and Paul Newman just to name of few. Paul Bond passed way in 2012, so every pair made and signed by him are truly special. Rocky Carrol, who passed away in 2017, was another legend, known as bootmaker to the US Presidents. Rocky made boots for seven president’s their families and staff, Soul is privileged to offer of pair of Rocky Carrol boots with the presidential seal, which was reserved only for White House folks. Rocky Carrol also made custom boots for Elizabeth Taylor, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Princess Diana, Willie Nelson, the Pope, Oprah Winfrey and George Strait and many more celebrities.
not leather and the soles were not pegged and I just wasn’t interested. The woman shoved the boots back into her bag and said “You’re a boot snob!”. For a split second I was stunned but then I replied “Yes I am and I stand by every pair of boots in this store, if a boot has a problem, I inform my customer.” Upon storming out the door she said “I’ll sell them on Ebay!” But that’s not the end of the story, before the “boot lady” came in, another woman had come in, she said she didn’t need boots, jst wanted to check out the other rooms of art and antiques. She evidently had heard the conversation, for when she walked back into the front of the shop, she said “You know I think I will check out your boots” and after trying on several pair she settled on a nice pair of Corrals. When I shared this with friends and loved ones their responses were all the same “Yep we know that and it’s a good thing.
Soul of the West is discriminating in the boots offered for sale; this pride in the legacy of the west has not always been appreciated by others. On one occasion a woman came into the store with a pair of boots she was looking to sell ( if the boots meet our criteria and the price is right we do purchase boots from individuals). This particular pair did not meet our standard. When asked “why, they are a big seller on the East Coast?” I proceeded to explain that the shafts were
Gwendolyn Rogers, The Boot Snob
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LOUIS VIGIL, EARLY BUSINESS MAN OF TULAROSA Joe Ben Sanders, 2017 (photos courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Powell, Ralph Vigil and Cynthia PreloReidlinger with contributions by Ralph Vigil, Charles Vigil, and Bear Vigil-Breuninger). Down the street two houses from me is my amigo Ralph Vigil, now in his nineties, and still a big man with a big shadow. He is busy still. This post is about his granddad, Louis Vigil. A publication titled The Leading Facts of New Mexican History Vol III by Ralph Waldo Twitchell, had the following information about this early businessman of Tularosa. I copied verbatim below. I grew up with many of the Vigil family and this post honors the Vigil family and recognizes the many beneficial accomplishments and good things this family has done for our village. Louis was the patriarch. Charles Vigil, told me once that his grandpa Louis would take him with him in his horse drawn wagon to get grass for the horses. Charles was so little he grinned and told me it was kind of hard for him to pitch that hay in that wagon They collected it along the irrigation ditches around Tularosa and fed it to the horses. Charles is an octogenarian, but remembers fondly the candy his granddaddy gave him oh so many years ago for helping him "grass" the horses.The family store that Louis had still in the family and is now called La Tienda and life goes on uninterrupted in my home village. Louis Vigil, a prosperous merchant of Tularosa, is a native of New Mexico, his birth having occurred in Limitar, Socorro county, the
27 of May, 1865. He is the son of Louis and Petra (Armijo) Vigil and his father engage in farming and stock raising. Louis Vigil, of this review, received his education in the public schools and on beginning his independent career, , secured a position as clerk in a general store. He worked in that capacity until he was thirty years old and in 1897 he was appointed postmaster at Tularosa, to which place he had removed in 1884. He held that office until 1913 and made an excellent recork, proving accurate and systematic in the discharge of his duties. In that year he resigned in order to give his entire attention to his mercantile interests. He owns a general store and has built up a large patronage as he carries stock of high quality and is satisfied with reasonable prices." Mr. Vigil was united in marriage on the 20th of June, 1895, to Miss Eulalia Brusuelas. They have four children: Samuel,, Ralph, Petra, and Louis, Jr. Mr. Vigil supports the republican party and has served for a few years as superintendent of schools at Tularosa, during which time he instituted a number of improvements in the school system. He is a member of the Spanish-American Alliance and his religious faith is that of the
roman catholic church. He is deeply interested in the development of the state
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Page 20 In February 1915 Fred Gutierrez bought the and cooperates heartily with all movements meat market business from Doniciano Sanchez seeing the promotion of its interests. The earliest advertisement I found in the local newspaper dates from September 6, 1905, and E.B. Vigil advertised dry good, groceries, feed, hay, and corn. In late July 1909, the telephone exchange office was transferred from the Vigil Stroe to the room west of the Gonzales store, across the street. Louis put in the first arc light in our village in September 1909, in front of his store which also housed the post office. Quite progressive and darn impressive. Do tell.
and moved it into the Vigil building, and it wasn't a fortnight that thieves broke into the meat market and stole one hundred pounds of flour and round of beef, and some coffee. Mrs. Hasting baked bread at the Central Hotel (now The Valley Lodge), which she sold at the Gutierrez meat market. Perhaps not liking the meat market business, Fred sold his business back to Sanchez and the meat market continued as before.
No one to sit idly by, and flush with lease money and retired, or perhaps to Improvements please the continued on new leaser, the Vigil Louis turned Building for a window "Louis was not into a door one to tarry" on his store says grandson building and Charles. added October 1913, another Louis had the window and lot fenced in the place between his was property and the Knight Store just in time for Christmas, "P. A. occupied by Dr. J. R. Howell according to the March 26, 1916 edition of the Tularosa Valley Stephens put a new front on the store which Tribune. Three months later he fixed up his old greatly improved the appearance of the location" storage shed just east of this store for a according to the December 20, 1913 Tularosa blacksmith shop to be conducted by Bert Jones. In Valley Tribune. late August of 1916, the front and west side of his On June 11, 1914, a fire destroyed the store was pebble-dashed and larger windows were Neumans Jewelry shop, the Briscoe's and put in. Pebble dash is a type of stucco treatment Hillburn duplex consisting of a restaurant, meat given vintage houses and dashed on with a brush. market, blacksmith and the Hillburn saloon. all By December 1919, E. B. B. Vigil Store was the building burned east of the red brick bank east back in business and a dealer in general ward along the north side of Granado Street to the merchandise. He let no cattails grow under is Cazares El Paso Store just west of Vigils tireless feet. building. It burned the Cazares building but not Vigils. It was the worst fire Tularosa ever Louis was a business man and he advertised experienced best I can determine. that " country produce bought and sold, Everything 1st Class & up to date. Best goods for In response to the changing times and the least money" ( TVT Dec. 13, 1919). E. B. conditions caused by the fire, Mr. Vigil, within likely stands for Eulalia Brusuelas, his wife's four days of the fire, sold his store stock to J. O. name. Cazares and also rented his building to Mr. Cazares. The two north and south partitions will be taken out and an up-to-date glass front will be put in. The El Paso store stock will be moved there as soon as the repair work is finished.
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The Tularosa printing & publishing company in April, 1915. Notice the Chicago Genuine, non-dial, straight shaft, desk stand oil-can "Candlestick" style telephone sitting on the printing press cabinet on the left. It appears the business is in a subdivided building by the looks of the ceiling.
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The Lincoln County War | Part 10 |Henry McCarty Henry McCarty was born to Catherine McCarty in New York City. While his birth year has been confirmed to be 1859, the exact date of his birth has been disputed as either September 17 or November 23 of that year.
Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory; McCarty and his brother Joseph were witnesses to the ceremony.
Shortly afterward, the family moved from Santa Fe to Silver City, New Mexico, and Joseph McCarty began using the name A letter from an official of Saint Peters's Joseph Antrim. Catherine McCarty died of Church in Manhattan states it is in tuberculosis on September 16, 1874. possession of records showing McCarty McCarty was 13 years old when his was baptized in that church on September mother died. Sarah Brown, the owner of a 28, 1859. Census records indicate his younger brother, Joseph McCarty, was born boarding house, gave him room and board in exchange for work. On September 16, in 1863. 1875, McCarty was caught stealing food. Following the death of her husband Ten days later, McCarty and George Patrick, Catherine McCarty and her sons Schaefer robbed a Chinese laundry, stealing moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she clothing and two pistols. McCarty was met William Henry Harrison Antrim. The charged with theft and was jailed. He McCarty family moved with Antrim to escaped two days later and became a Wichita, Kansas, in 1870. fugitive, as reported in the Silver City After moving again a few years later, Herald the next day, the first story Catherine married Antrim on March 1, published about him. 1873, at the First Presbyterian Church in
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Page 71 McCarty located his stepfather and stayed with him until Antrim threw him out; McCarty stole clothing and guns from him. It was the last time the two saw each other
and was apprehended by Miles Wood, the local Justice of the Peace. McCarty was detained and held in the Camp Grant guardhouse but escaped before law enforcement could arrive.
McCarty stole a horse and fled Arizona After leaving Antrim, McCarty traveled to southeastern Arizona Territory, where he Territory for New Mexico Territory, but Apaches took the horse from him, leaving worked as a ranch hand and gambled his him to walk many miles to the nearest wages in nearby gaming houses. settlement. At Fort Stanton in the Pecos \ In 1876, he was hired as a ranch hand Valley, McCarty—starving and near by well-known rancher Henry Hooker. death—went to the home of friend and During this time, McCarty became Seven Rivers Warriors gang member John acquainted with John R. Mackie, a Jones, whose mother Barbara nursed Scottish-born criminal and former U.S. McCarty back to health. Cavalry private who, following his After regaining his health, McCarty discharge, remained near the U.S. Army went to Apache Tejo, a former army post, post at Camp Grant. The two men soon where he joined a band of rustlers who began stealing horses from local soldiers. raided herds owned by cattle magnate John McCarty became known as "Kid Antrim" Chisum in Lincoln County. After McCarty because of his youth, slight build, cleanwas spotted in Silver City, his involvement shaven appearance, and personality. with the gang was mentioned in a local On August 17, 1877, McCarty was at a newspaper. saloon in the village of Bonita when he got At some point in 1877, McCarty began into an argument with Francis "Windy" to refer to himself as "William H. Bonney", Cahill, a blacksmith who reportedly had otherwise known as “Billy the Kid”. bullied McCarty and on more than one occasion, called McCarty a "pimp". McCarty in turn called Cahill a "son of a bitch," whereupon Cahill threw McCarty to the floor and the two struggled for McCarty's revolver. McCarty shot and mortally wounded Cahill. A witness said, "He had no choice; he had to use his equalizer". Cahill died the following day. McCarty fled but returned a few days later
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July 2018 horoscope for Cancer The birth month for many, this month is expected to be one of the finest for the people of the Cancer sun sign. The planets and stars are arranged in your favour in a way that achieving all your objectives and desires may not seem such a difficult task this month after all. You will be high on energy and wilful to work hard towards the achievement of your goals. This month, you tend to cast a social charm on people around you, because of which they feel drawn towards you and your overall persona Career growth is on the cards for you this month. You should aim to improve and enhance your professional knowledge this month in order to achieve the growth in career that you have imagined. You should try and communicate your goals to people around you, who might be instrumental in helping you achieve this growth. Do not plan a career switch as it may not be rewarding. Any type of monetary ventures that you begin this month will be highly successful. You will also find that on the average, the scale of earnings is improving for you this month. The planets are positioned in a way that your fortunes with respect to finances
will be seen improving this month. This month any speculative ventures that you set out on, will turn out to be profitable for you. Your technical knowledge will help you achieve major goals this month. You will discover that you and your spouse are engaged in following the same pursuits this month which will ultimately enhance your bonding with each other. You will find that your focus towards family life is strong. In case, you are single and waiting to pursue someone since long, this month seems just right. You can propose your love to someone you genuinely like and be assured of a positive response. It is favorable for those planning to marry their partner. The month of July beings excellent health for you and your family this month. Physical fitness will be the key to achieve the targets that you have set for yourself. However, it is advisable for you to take care of your heart and avoid eating unhealthy food. Get a regular medical check up done and eat right to stay healthy. A visit to the hospital concerning the health of your partner is foreseen. However, there is nothing to worry and things will be good soon.
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