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Models — male and female — strutted down the runway in leather cowboy hats, cowhide valises, and checkered denim jackets adorned with bull badges, their cowboy boots boasting shiny metal points.

These valises are a reminder of how far Talley was able to travel from his childhood in Durham and how he did so with aplomb and self-regard.

A few steps away, a kosher carving knife, a pushcart, a pickle barrel and a battered traveling valise used by immigrants from Lithuania are lined up against a wall.

I left my trunk, grabbed my valise and Mr. Whiskers, and started off down the snow-lined street.

Traveling across the ocean and over mountains, he uses the contents of his valise to feed himself, stay warm, unlock a cage, pacify a sharp-toothed ogre and find valuable treasure.