Abe Boots
- Headquarters
- Monteview, ID
- Manufacturing
- Monteview, ID
- Categories
- boots-and-work-footwear
Abe Boots is a boot shop in a steel building on a farm road in Monteview, Idaho, forty-five miles north-west of Idaho Falls. It builds heavy lace-up work boots to order — fire and logger boots, packers, and a plain six-inch work boot on the Munson last — and has done since Abraham Roundy took over a custom boot business from Steve and Bev Gilger of Dubois, twenty miles away.
The name is new and the shop is not. It opened as Roundy Boot Shop, became Hidden Boot & Leather when another Roundy turned out to be making boots in Utah, and took the name Abe Boots in 2025. The state seller’s permit for the Monteview address has been in force since January 2015, and a local newspaper reported the move from Dubois at the time. That is why this record carries a domain registered less than a year ago: the domain is young, the business is not.
Abe Boots says its leather comes from American tanneries and names them: S.B. Foot, Seidel, Horween and Law. It does not say where its outsoles and hardware are made, and the soles it names are Vibram’s.
Most of what stands behind this record came from the shop itself, at our request: photographs of the building, the benches, the permit and the clipping. They are reproduced below. The site owner reviewed them and approved the top mark on that basis.
The shop’s own store also sells boot oil, laces and socks from other makers. Those are not covered by this record.
From the workshop
Six photographs Abe Boots sent us on 2 Oct 2026. Tap one to see it whole.
Domain record
abeboots.com was registered on .It dates the domain, not the business: a maker that moved to a new address reads young here, and an old domain says nothing about who holds it now.
RDAP registry record · checked 3 Oct 2026
The record
Abe Boots says its boots are handmade in Idaho from leather bought from American tanneries
“We are building with Full Grain Leather, sourced from US tanneries such as SB Foot, Seidel, Horween, Law Tannery.”
abeboots.comRetrieved
A local newspaper reported that Dubois Custom Made Boots was bought and moved to Monteview by Abraham and Jennifer Roundy, who were taught to make the boots by its former owners
“Dubois Custom Made Boots has been purchased and moved to Monteview, where it will now be known as Roundy Boot Shop. Former owners Steve and Bev Gilger, of Dubois, taught Abraham Roundy and Jennifer Roundy, brother and sister, of Monteview, over several months on how to make the custom boots.”
madeherelist.comRetrieved
The State of Idaho issued a seller's permit to the shop at its Monteview address, effective 1 January 2015
“SELLER'S PERMIT. THE BUSINESS NAMED BELOW HAS BEEN GRANTED THIS PERMIT, WHICH IS VALID UNTIL CANCELLED, REVOKED, OR SUSPENDED FOR CAUSE AS PROVIDED BY LAW.”
madeherelist.comRetrieved
The Idaho Secretary of State holds a name reservation for Abe Boots, filed by Abraham Roundy at the Monteview address
“Abe Boots (7029137)”
sosbiz.idaho.govRetrieved
A 2019 festival biography confirms the Gilgers built custom boots at their Dubois shop and later sold it
“Thirty-four years ago, Bev Gilger started Dubois Leather, a leather shop in Dubois, Idaho. It was there she met her husband Steve and together they repaired shoes and saddles and built custom boots for 20 years.”
montanafolkfestival.comRetrieved
What we checked, and what we didn't
The records below cover goods Abe Boots makes. Its shop also resells goods by other makers, which we have not verified.
Obenauf's · GRIP6
Products
Where to buy10" Logger Boot
Where to buy6" Munson Work Boot
Where to buyLace Up Western Work Boots — Packer
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