Prior to moving to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, I lived in Southern Nevada for 23 years.   During that time I spent many fall hunting seasons in Northern Nevada hunting the Mule deer of that state. It was during those trips that I found the need to treat my boots in order to keep my feet dry from the snow. I also learned that the desert heat and sands were not friendly to leather. I tried several brands of leather treatment and finally decided that there was one in particular that worked better than the others.

Upon moving to Southwest Colorado I found that snow and rains were more frequent than in Southern Nevada. It was August in the year that I moved to Montezuma County. It started to rain and I don’t think it stopped until Thanksgiving. That is probably an exaggeration but I’m close. I wanted to wear my leather boots but I couldn’t find the brand of leather treatment that I was used to. That next year I started working on creating my own product. I started with some formulas that I found in various books and spent a great deal of time creating a bunch of junk. I took the time to analyze the various ingredients and started narrowing them down to a manageable number as well as recognizing which ones were working and which ones were mere fluff. Even when I selected the ingredients I wanted to work with, I created many batches of failures. The first ones I made were so hard you couldn’t even stick your finger in it to try to apply it. So trial and error produced today’s Colorado Boot Grease.

I started sharing CBG with friends. I listened to their comments: "Too hard"; "Too goopy"; "Too stinky", and more. I first marketed CBG through farm Feed & Grain stores and the rest, as they say, is history.