You're talking to a guy that just spent all day looking for American made boots to buy and ended up buying Chinese hikers at 6pm because the kids needed dinner.
Fireball
I've bought Red Wings for almost 20 years. They have cheap import boots and higher up the ladder there are American made ones I believe. I buy the better ones because I want something that might last a year and I wear a 14 A or B width. Usually the eyelets wear through until the laces start getting cut and then it's new eyelets and sometimes new out soles when they wear through. When I was landscaper I usually got a summer out of the outsoles on their high end boot. I did a search on the Red Wing website and they have dealers in Oregon, however I don't know how close they are to you.
