Red Wing Pecos Rough & Tough Boots

Red Wing built this boot for the oil workers of Pecos, Texas, a Permian Basin town that gave the style its name when Red Wing introduced it in 1958. The pull-on design uses the brand's No. 17 last, the foot-shaped mold that shapes the leather during construction, giving the boot an almond toe instead of a pointed one. It's paired with a roper heel: shorter and broader than a standard cowboy boot heel, nailed on rather than glued so it can be individually replaced once it wears down. This limited run comes in Copper Rough & Tough leather, an oiled roughout that darkens and creases with wear, built over a Goodyear welt for resoling and finished with an oil-resistant brown Chemigum outsole for grip on a rig floor. Nearly seventy years after it went to work in the oil fields, the boot's toughest feature is still the part everyone overlooks: a heel you can nail back on instead of throwing the boot away.