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Family Ties Well, looks like we are all distant cousins. Cool! Alice, your grandmother was Mary Melrose Myres? PM me. I'd like to talk to you sometime. Alejandro, are you the son of Blanche or Robert? PM me.-- I may also have some leads on Myres leatherwork for you, and would like to...

More Myres Original Work Leather Gauntlets. Saddle. Saddle Detail. $10,000 Saddle. Purse Detail. Sadddle Detail. Commendation from War Department. SD "Tio" Myres. Myres collage. More Saddles. Several more images from the Sweetwater Museum...

Alright, these are the photos I took last year at the museum in Sweetwater. Hopefully these will be informative and entertaining and help anyone in determining whether they have an older (original- which I sort of consider anything made before 1953) and the newer pieces. Examining the...

Texasgun, the style of your holster is immediately recognizable as SD Myres. The cross-hatched weave pattern in the darker finish was pretty prominent. I'll get some of my pics up soon.

My great uncle (SD's brother) wrote a fairly comprehensive book about the family history. It touches relatively briefly on SD's work, but is a good read and reference about early Texas settlers.

Old Fluff-- Sorry, I lost track of this thread last year and just recently found it again: Bill Myres is not familliar to me, but perhaps to my dad, so I'll ask. On the subject of the original works: The local Museum in Sweetwater has a very extensive collection of SD Myres leatherwork...

Indeed, the new company is certainly not the old. Sam died in 1953 ( he was my great-grandfather's brother). Sam moved the original SD Myers company to El Paso in the early 1900's and formed the El Paso Saddle Co. The El Paso company name and tooling were subsequently bought and used by...