The Rail Three Custom Leather Work by
Made in the USA hits a new level of authenticity when you purchase a handcrafted item from the ladies at Rail Three Ranch. Mother-daughter duo Sammi Jo Beebe and Pecas Sonora Beebe not only create, design, and produce beautiful, high-quality leather products, but they are also essential day help on their family’s cattle ranch in rural Arizona. Sammi Jo started this story way back in 1997 inside her garage in Oklahoma, where she crafted an early version of the iconic leather flower well known today. Her creativity and dedication, along with a young Pecas’s assistance, helped grow an idea into a reality, and they eventually moved into a shop on their Oklahoma ranch. But Arizona was calling the Beebe family’s name, so they made the move and eventually settled about an hour and a half southeast of Phoenix in a dry,
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saguaro-filled piece of country outside of Florence, Arizona. The Rail Three Ranch Leather Shop sits in the city of Florence on the main drag. The address takes you to a historic adobe building built in 1889. Florence, which has deep roots in agriculture dating all the way back to the Hohokam people, continues to serve this purpose. As more people move to the cities and fewer people farm or raise animals, small towns like Florence continue to see a reduction in local business, so entities like the Rail Three Ranch Leather Shop and the actual Rail Three Ranch are essential to the local economy. Pecas says the ranch is what keeps them in Florence. Their shop and ranch aren’t the only ways they contribute to their local economy. Back in 2018, Shad, husband, and father to the ladies behind the brand, started a Ranch Rodeo, which welcomes people from the area to enter as a competitor