Boot Manufacturer
Cowtown
Cowtown Boot Company is an El Paso manufacturing house with a 100,000-square-foot I-10 factory and a 50,000-square-foot factory store. Official About, signed by Joey Calcaterra, says every pair is handmade in the company’s own factories. The Better Business Bureau records a local start on 1 January 1962.
Why collectors care
Cowtown is an El Paso factory-direct cowboy and exotic house. Collectors meet numbered official styles and vintage pairs bought at the Interstate 10 factory store, which also sells other makers.
This page is a manufacturing company card. A pair purchased at Cowtown is not automatically a Cowtown boot.
Company history
Cowtown’s official About page does not print a founding year. It says every Cowtown boot is handmade from start to finish in the company’s own factories, hand-trimmed and hand-lasted, and inspected at each step. The same page places a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and headquarters on Interstate 10 in El Paso, with a 50,000-square-foot factory store. Joey Calcaterra signs the page. The printed address is 11451 Gateway West, El Paso, Texas 79936.
The Better Business Bureau El Paso file records Business Started Locally: 1/1/1962. El Paso Times (10 January 2023) identifies Paul Calcaterra as owner and quotes him thanking El Paso “through the past 60 years that we’ve been here.” A directory comment naming Joe and Paul Calcaterra as 1962 founders is not locked here.
Jose Luis Sanchez later listed contract work for Cowtown among other El Paso houses. That is a people credit, not a Champion or Sanchez stamp on a Cowtown pair.
Known for
El Paso factory-direct cowboy and exotic production; I-10 factory store