If there’s one name you should know when it comes to cowboy boots, it’s Lucchese. This Texas-based company has been creating high-quality boots and shoes since 1883 (so quite literally ...

sees cowboy boots as part of immigrants’ manifestation of the American Dream. Salvatore and Joseph Lucchese, sons of a shoemaker, arrived in Galveston, Texas, from Palermo, Italy, in 1882.