Custom cowboy boots spurring business

   Over 200,000 people attended Tucson’s La Fiesta de los Vaqueros this February.   Amid the crowd, a woman with a skin-tight, all-denim outfit stands tall as she sipped her beer.  She is wearing leopard print cowboy boots with red leather that adorns her calves and a matching belt with a chunky white gold clasp. “Those are…

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From the horns of the bull [With ASNS Video]

[ASNS Video, production by Isaac Cox] The tough cowboys and bull riders from the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, also known as the Tucson Rodeo, are nursing their aches and bruises now that the rodeo is over. For the bull riders, trying to spend eight seconds atop a snarling 1,700-pound bucking bull that can leap five…

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