Henry Camargo · History

History

Henry Camargo ran Camargo's Handmade Boots on U.S. 83 in Mercedes, Texas, profiled in Joe Nick Patoski's June 2002 Texas Monthly roundup. He considered himself an artist, producing unconventional designs on exotic skins with free-form stitching; boot tops he built included images of 1955 Chevy convertibles, 1966 Corvettes, Harleys, Ford pickups, speedboats, Dallas Cowboys helmets, and Lone Star beer logos. His boots started at $225 and took three to five weeks.

He is a different bootmaker from Vicente Cavazos, the other Mercedes shop profiled in the same article.