OK, he wasn’t from Fort Worth … he was from Denver, but I’m kind of upset about this. Jack A. Weil, the king of cowboy couture who first to put snaps on Western shirts and most likely the first to produce bolo ties commercially, went to the big Dude Ranch in the Sky on Wednesday. He was 107.

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