While many companies make Old West-style gunleather, only a handful make true museum-quality reproductions of the holsters and gun belts worn during our frontier period. Among those few, El Paso Saddlery Co., stands out as a pioneer of Old West gunleather, tracing its lineage back to 1889.
The company made gunleather for young Lt. George S. Patton, and later for John Wayne, to be worn

True West March 2018
In This Issue:
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Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Brian Downes
- Does Consumption Exist Today?
- Cattle, Cowboys and Culture
- Western Events for March 2018
- Back to Basque
- Sarah “Great Western” Bowman Reportedly Died of a Tarantula Bite. Is Tarantula Venom that Poisonous?
- Fake News Guru
- The Oatman Massacre
- What Happened to the Scalp that “Buffalo Bill” Cody Took from Cheyenne Warrior Yellow Hair at Warbonnet Creek in 1876?
- America’s First Cavalry Blade
- Gem City of the Plains
- Big Year for Custer Guns
- How are Cattle Brands read, and how do Ranchers select them?
- Sitting with Wyatt Earp
- Is Pancho Villa’s “Punitive Expedition” the same as the “Mexican Expedition?”
- The Suspect Savannah Strike