Advertising disclosure: this article contains affiliate links, placed only on brands ranked number nine through one that are sold through retailers we can link to. If you buy through them, this site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Hoof & Honest was not paid by any brand named here, and no…
Two saddles can carry the same famous name, and only one of them comes from the shop the man himself chose. We ranked 12 western saddle brands on what they put in writing: where they build, who builds the tree, and how long they stand behind it.
Two saddles can hang side by side on a tack store wall, both carrying the Billy Cook name, and only one of them came out of the shop in Sulphur, Oklahoma where Billy Cook spent his last decades. The other traces back to a 1980s foreclosure that cost him the exclusive rights to his own…