The cowboy boot art installation project began in 2019 and was funded by the Community Foundation of Dickinson County, Quality of Life Coalition, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Ronnie Lawson, an artist whom I had never met, a big rangy man in a black ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots, came up behind me and began singing the story of the painting in a low, insistent voice.

Two new inductees to the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America were immortalized with their boot print, hand print and name ...