# Cowboy Boots. Why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboy-boots-why/43014>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 28, 2000, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboy-boots-why/43014 "2000-11-28T12:54:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![KevinB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c0e974/32.png) [@KevinB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KevinB)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboy-boots-why/43014/21 "2000-11-29T18:48:58Z")

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> Of course, spurs are hardly used anymore…

As jeel said, working cowboys still wear spurs. So do “competitive” cowboys. My daughter’s heavily involved in reining horse competition, and all the reiners and cow horse people wear spurs. Even a 12-year old girl can get some respectable speed out of a 1200-pound horse with the judicious touch of a spur.

Kevin B.

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