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Stidham Outfitters and Custom Leather

Leather artist Seth Stidham has a front row seat on Main Street of the Texas Hill Country. When he sits at his workbench at Stidham Outfitters and Custom Leather in the two-stoplight town of Johnson City, tooling most any creation that befits the classic Sheridan style, he can look out a big picture window at the endless parade on US 290.

Not only does the rural highway take travelers to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s boyhood home and ranch, it also leads to legendary Luckenbach, the tiny town made famous in song by Willie, Waylon and the boys. A little further west beckons the German pioneer town and tourist mecca of Fredericksburg, as well as Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, a pink granite mountain that

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