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Boot Life: A Singular Sandhills Store Keeps on Dressing Cowboys in the Age of Amazon

Joe McBride, Lori McBride and their daughter Rhe’Ann McBride (left to right). Rhe’Ann is the third generation of the family to work at Ranch-Land Western Store. “(My parents) wanted us to find our own passions … that we loved as much as my dad and my granddad loved the store,” she said. “It just so happened that I found that love, too.” Photo by Haley Miles for the Flatwater Free Press

AINSWORTH – Mort McBride was walking down Main Street when a man stopped him with a question.

“Is there a place to buy a decent pair of boots in this town?”

McBride was standing in front of a building h…