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47 N. Lobban Ave, Buffalo
Blacksmith David Osmundsen has forged hot steel since the 1970s and opened this Big Horn Mountains smithing school in 2004, teaching nineteenth-century techniques in small groups. His anvil turns out hand-forged frontier knives, tomahawks and ironwork fitted with local hardwood and antler.
Best for Hand-forged frontier knives and blacksmithing classes
28 S. Main St, Buffalo
Bucking Buffalo Supply stocks western apparel, authentic American Indian turquoise-and-silver jewelry, and the full range of Longmire merchandise tied to Craig Johnson's novels set in the surrounding Absaroka country. The business runs its store at 28 South Main Street in Buffalo alongside a second shop up the road in Sheridan.
Best for Western wear and turquoise jewelry
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo Distilling Company is a craft distillery making small-batch spirits in Buffalo, distilling and bottling its own whiskey and other liquors on site. The operation pairs production with a bar and tasting room where visitors sample the house range.
Best for Craft whiskey and small-batch spirits
River Rock Drive, Buffalo (WNY locations)
Fowler's Chocolates, founded by Joseph A. Fowler in 1901, calls itself Buffalo's original sponge candy maker and still turns out the airy toffee-centered confection. Run from a River Rock Drive factory store, it also makes almond butter crunch, sea-salt caramels and truffles using chocolate up to 60% cacao.
Best for Sponge candy, chocolates, caramels and truffles
22 Plains Drive, Buffalo
Karen Hostetler founded this full-service wool mill in 2007 to pay Wyoming ranchers fair prices for their fleece, and it now processes more than 60,000 pounds of wool a year at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains. The shop sells 23 yarn lines along with blankets and apparel, each skein traceable by handshake agreement back to the specific ranch that raised the sheep.
Best for Ranch-traceable Wyoming wool yarn and blankets
Buffalo, New York / United States
Founded in Buffalo, New York in 1920 by Ehrhardt Koch as the E. Koch Cap Company and renamed New Era in 1922, the headwear maker became MLB's official cap supplier; Koch's son Harold developed the 59FIFTY fitted cap in 1954, and it reached the public market in 1980.
Best for The 59FIFTY cap, official MLB headwear since 1920
New Era was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1920 by Ehrhardt Koch, who borrowed $1,000 from his sister Rose and $1,000 from a co-worker to start the E. Koch Cap Company, producing caps on the third floor of a building on Genesee Street with a staff of 14, including Koch's sister and son. In 1922 Koch renamed the company New Era Cap. The company's signature product, the 59FIFTY fitted cap, was developed by Ehrhardt's son Harold Koch in 1954 to standardize on-field caps across Major League Baseball; by the 1970s it was worn by the majority of MLB teams, and it went on sale to the public in 1980. New Era remains headquartered in Buffalo and continues to serve as official on-field headwear supplier to MLB, alongside licensed caps for the NFL and NBA.
Buffalo / New York / Online
Buffalo's Ivy institution — trad clothing and proper shirts. One-piece collar available on custom and made-to-measure orders.
Best for Trad American shirting
Seneca Street, Buffalo
Oxford Pennant designs and sews wool-felt pennants, flags and banners in a Seneca Street workshop, reviving a keepsake tradition its founders felt had gone cheap and overseas. Started in 2013, the company designs, manufactures and ships American-made pieces under one Buffalo roof.
Best for Wool-felt pennants, flags and banners
Elmwood Village, Buffalo
Talking Leaves is an independent Buffalo bookstore, its Elmwood Avenue shop known for a deep, hand-picked selection across literature, poetry and small-press titles. Staff recommendations and author events have kept it central to the city's reading community for decades.
Best for Independent and literary books, local and small-press titles
38 S. Main St, Buffalo
Owner Laura Harmon shows her painted floorcloths and furniture in this Main Street gallery, sharing the walls with more than thirty area artists working in jewelry, pottery, fiber and western painting. The shelves also hold locally made soap, candles and lotions, and Harmon offers color consulting and decorative painting from the same storefront.
Best for Regional Wyoming art and painted floorcloths
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