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Brad Glenn’s Journey

“My vision is to make the best custom-fit cowboy boot around, but more importantly, to lead more people from where they’re at to where God wants them to be.”
— BRAD GLENN

Every fine bootmaker worthy of the title strives to do the best work he or she possibly can. The best of the best readily confirm that there is still much to learn, that each pair of boots should be just a little bit better than the one before it, whether the difference can be perceived by the untrained eye or not.

And then there’s Brad Glenn of BG Leather Shop and Custom Boots in Lubbock, Texas.

While Glenn’s work ethic, talent and dedication to his art and craft clearly place him among the elite class described above, there’s something else going on here; something deeper and more essential than considerations of what mortal humans place upon their feet as they walk the pathways of this life. “My vision is to make the best custom-fit cowboy boot around,” the

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