Carlos Pitts
Born Richens Lacy Wootton in Mecklenburg County, Virginia in 1816, Dick Wootton spent the majority of his childhood on the family tobacco plantation in Kentucky and his final teenage years on his uncle’s cotton plantation in Mississippi. Tiring of the plantation life and thirsting for adventure, nineteen year old Dick Wootton found himself in Independence, Missouri in 1836 and was soon hired as a …
