Cowboy boot soles are traditionally pegged in the shank area with little square wooden shoe pegs. Even though I sometimes make shoes now, like this pair, I build them on cowboy boot lasts and finish them like cowboy boots. Did you know that in the mid-1800s wood shoe pegs were so cheap and so plentiful that feed merchants would adulterate cattle feed with shoe pegs? Compare that to today, when we have one maker of wood shoe pegs left in the entire world.