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Bootmaker Stephanie Ferguson started her design career in Ohio making custom-made men's and women's sportswear, leatherwear, and evening wear. In 1987 her jacket, "The West," was one of the highlights of the annual "Focus: Fiber Show" on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It was also later displayed in the Ohio Designer Craftsmen's traveling show titled "Best of 1989."
During this time she also worked with Amishman Eli D. Miller of Mesopotamia, Ohio, first as his apprentice and then later in advanced specialties such as rebuilding and restoring antique side-saddles sent to him from around the country.
Stephanie learned bootmaking from veteran Texas bootmaker Jack Reed, after being inspired by Tyler Beard's The Cowboy Boot Book. She fine-tuned her skills while working with Bo Riddle, who was then in Nashville, TN. Her boot tops were chosen best Uppers at the 1995 Custom Boot & Shoemakers Guild Convention in Silverthorne, Colorado. In 1996 she was awarded Best of Show at the Mesa, Arizona CBSG Convention.
In 1997 she displayed her work in "Cowboy Boots: The Exhibition" at Houston Community College, "Sole of the West-A Westen Boot Exhibit" in Greeley, Colorado, and in "Steps in Time" at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney. Interestingly, she was the only woman exhibitor in these shows.
In 1998 she studied Pedorthics at Oklahoma State University and received her national certification in that field.
That same year three pairs of her boots were included in "Cowboy Boots: The Sole of the West," the largest show to date on cowboy boots. The show was curated by Tyler Beard and on display at the Museum of the Horse in Ruidoso, N.M.
In 1999 Tyler Beard brought out his second cowboy boot book The Art of the Boot, featuring pictures by Jim Arndt. Ferguson's creations are among the work of three boot-making firms featured on the back cover and she is one of 26 individual bootmakers profiled in the book.
Since that time, pairs of her boots have been on display at the George Bush Presidential Museum in College Station, Texas and the Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave in Golden, Colorado. Her boots display at The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin and the Grace Museum in Abilene.
In 2004 Beard and Arndt published still another book, Cowboy Boots, which includes six pictures of boots designed by Ferguson.
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