“It’s not what you know, it’s what you do with what you know.” – Enid Justin

That quote epitomizes the push of Enid Justin, who launched Nocona Boot Company in 1925, surprising her loved ones who predicted it would fall short, but stayed legitimate to her vision generating a enterprise that endured for just about 75 a long time.

Author and historian Carol A. Lipscomb uses that quotation to open up chapter 1 of her new guide, “The Woman Makes Boots,” the initially biography of Enid Justin. Making use of archival material along with particular interviews with Justin family customers and boot firm staff members, Lipscomb has created a multi-faceted tale of a pioneering small business girl who did items her personal way breaking through societal norms to develop a multi-million greenback corporation.

Lipscomb released her new ebook, in late November web hosting many book signing functions in the place. The spouse of the late Nocona spot businessman, Richard Lipscomb, the few spent the very last 20 decades residing in Fort Value, but the couple raised their loved ones in Nocona for approximately 20 a long time.

Richard grew up in Nocona and fulfilled Carol when they have been in university. They married right after graduation and right after residing in Arlington a handful of yrs moved to Nocona in 1979 when Richard ordered the Chevrolet/Oldsmobile/Buick dealership.

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“We lived listed here 18 decades elevating our boys, Rik, Kelly and Clark. There are nonetheless so quite a few folks right here I really like and am content to see when I check out,” claimed Carol.

When she experienced earned a diploma in background, it was not until finally her boys went off to college or university she determined to return to university to pursue her PhD. At the time done, she taught for a while at the College of North Texas, but then made the decision to turn into an unbiased historian to research and generate on her very own.

Miss Enid’s biography is not her initially foray into currently being an writer. She labored with effectively-regarded historian Robert S. Weddle to develop “After the Massacre,” a historic assessment of the San Saba Spanish expedition.

The writer got to know Weddle whilst she was in graduate faculty. He lent her a doc from the Spanish archives in Madrid for her dissertation, which is what they turned into the 2007…