The Rise Of Western Civilization: How It Happened
September, 1980
By now, cowboy chic has saddle-broken our most irascible clotheshorses, but it's been a long, rhinestone-strewn trail--probably starting as far back as the 12th Century, when Arabs introduced boots to the Spanish, who eventually brought them to America. Now, of course, some Arab oil sheiks wait as long as a year and a half for a Texas-sewn pair of Luccheses.How in the world does such an epidemic spread? As the following chronology proves, it's been coming on for some time. If we survive country...