Main Street in a Cowboy's Town

Miles City is known as a cowboy town, and it ain't pullin' your leg with that billing.

It's a place where enough cowboys need (and get) their boots fixed to support a cowboy cobbler.

Just up the street, under the neon sign, is Miles City Saddlery. There's another Western-themed store across the street.

A few blocks over, the Range Riders Museum pays tribute to the cowboys of yore.

I've seen horse and stock trailers go by all day long. The long-running Miles City Bucking Horse Sale is a rodeo world fixture.

And, as an aside, I saw the price of gas drop 5 cents a gallon in the time it took me to go over to the saddle shop and back. It was already 10 cents cheaper than on the previous Friday, when I came through here headed east.