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Richens Lacey Wootton
Richens Lacey Wootton
Born1816
Virginia
Died1893 (aged 76–77)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationFrontiersman

Richens Lacy (or Lacey) Wootton (1816 - 1893), often referred to as "Uncle Dick" Wootton, was an American frontiersman born in Virginia, but lived most of his life in Colorado.

In his early life Wootton was a mountain man and trapper, then a hunter at Bent's Fort. In 1866, he hired a tribe of Utes under Chief Conniache to build a toll road through Raton Pass. He later sold the road to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad [1] and the railroad named one of their locomotives after him. [2]

He appears as a character in Flashman and the Redskins when Flashman employs him as a guide. Flashman and his caravan are forced to abandon him when he catches cholera.

He is referenced in Michener's "Centennial ".

References

  1. ^ "Richens Lacy "Uncle Dick" Wootton". www.sangres.com.
  2. ^ "Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society : Resources". old.atsfrr.org.

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