Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. 1: A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference (Classic Reprint)

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Richens Lacy Wootton was born May 6, 1816, in Mecklenberg County, Virginia. When he was 7, the family moved to Christian County, Kentucky, where Richens lived until he was 17. Then he went to an uncle's cotton plantation in Mississippi for almost 2 years. At that point, he headed west to Independence, Missouri. That was 1836. He took a job with a wagon train run by Bent, St. Vrain &amp; Co., headed for Bent's Fort in Colorado. That began a long adventure with Dick Wootton becoming known as a mountain man and one of the best frontiersman/trapper/guides in the West. He fought with, and traded with, many of the different Indian tribes. He traveled over almost the entire western half of the country as a trapper and later as a military guide. By 1840, trapping had become far less profitable. Wootton took a job at Bent's Fort as a hunter. The primary game was buffalo and he hunted them only for food. Over the years, though, the "skin hunters" hunted the buffalo almost to extinction, hunting them only to feed an Eastern market that was hot for buffalo skin robes. Wootton tried an experiment with buffalo farming in the vicinity of where Pueblo is now. He raised buffalo and cattle together for three years, then drove his herd east along the Santa Fe Trail to Kansas City. There he sold them all for a good profit to a man who then took them to New York.

"Uncle Dick" Wootton: The Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region (Classics of the Old West)

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Excerpt from Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. 4: A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference Competition with the old established facto ries of Massachusetts, whose ample capital, long experience and perfect discipline gave so many and such formidable advantages in the contest; and, no doubt there were those who thought the attempt must end in fail ure. And yet it was successful from the start, and the industry has been growing in importance and volume ever since. The man who assisted in starting and carrying on the first boot and shoe factory in St. Louis was Howard Brolaski, and he is still living at Pol-ts and Oils. The date of this writing It was in 1866 that the factory was put into Opera tion, and although the lack of capital forced it to succumb in the general industrial col lapse oi 1872-3, it had demonstrated that shoemaking might and ought to be one of the manufactures of St. Louis. It was, there fore, promptly followed by others, until, in 1897, there were twenty-six boot and shoe factories in the city, employing hands, paying out in wages per annum, and yielding a product whose value is esti mated by the editor of the Shoe and Leather Gazette at for 1896. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. 4: A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference (Classic Reprint)

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