The bronc rider heard the whistle and stopped spurring. He waited for the pickup men to catch up with him and handed the rein off to one of them. As he grabbed the pickup man’s waist to pull himself off, he felt his oxbow stirrup tug at his boot. A moment later he touched down on the other side of the pickup horse in the churned dirt of the Cody Nite Rodeo.
As a bronc rider, Ty Skiver knew the importance of a cowboy boot and why it was built the way it was. Boots had been designed to protect a cowboy’s life and limb in places where there were no pick up men, let alone an audience.
Ty was from Big Piney, Wyoming. It was cowboy country and when he was four, he rode his first calf at a local rodeo. Ty moved on to steers and rode colts for ranchers. Ty rode his first bareback bronc when he was 12, and he was hooked.
During high school, Ty discovered the world of leather. He participated in a local 4H program. One of the perks was getting to go to local saddlemaker Ron Reese’s shop. Ron gave Ty
