This Week in the West: Salvatore "Sam" Lucchese

This Week in the West · Feb 24, 2025 · 5m

🤠This Week in the West

🎙️ Episode 17: Salvatore “Sam” Lucchese

📢 Episode Summary: When Salvatore Lucchese and his family arrived in America in 1883, they had the knowledge of shoemaking, and not much else.

More than a century later, “Sam” has a legacy - Lucchese Bootmaker, one of the most well-known and respected brands for cowboy boots.

In our podcast this week, we tell the story of Sam’s journey to Texas from Italy and how being in the right place at the right time allowed Lucchese Bootmaker to become a bootmaker for the army before moving on to some of the most well-known customers in the…