Boot Barn on Topanga Canyon Boulevard is part of a chain, but it stands above its sister stores in the region due to the expertise of its staff -- and, too, its customers. It's just minutes from old-time horse country in Chatsworth, home to the famed Cowboy Palace Saloon, where locals still arrive on horseback and tie up at hitching posts. Boot Barn's shoppers are students taking equine training and handling courses at nearby Pierce College, as well as longtime San Fernando Valley horse... More »
