For such a simple, distinctly Western adornment, the bolo tie - a length of braided leather or cord decorated with metal tips and fastened with an ornamental clasp or slide - has become not only a ...

Few menswear accessories are as distinctive as the bolo tie. A classic staple of American ranch wear and Western style, when ...

Benya, 17, said he prefers the string bolo ties over traditional knotted ties ... for embarrassing their son and failing to respect the Cherokee background of his father. His mother, Marsha ...

"To have some high school say that a bolo tie is not a tie is an outrage," said ... His paternal grandmother's father and grandfather were born on a Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma.

San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers, this country-and-western cognoscente, wears bolo ties in postgame news conferences, begrudgingly seen by locals after Rivers won in Denver in December.