Crossword-Solution: WOOTEN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Prithee, where is thy mother’s dwelling, good Father, and I will go and ask news of her?” “’Tis a lonely hovel by the waterside not far from the Cattle Gate; Goody Wooten thou shalt ask for.” Martin went swiftly forward over the Common; Hilarius and the Friar followed more slowly, and when they came to the Cattle Gate they stood fast and waited, the Friar turning his head anxiously and straining to make his ears do a double service.

Wooten [editor], Comprehensive History of Texas (2 vols., 1899), has material on settlement in this period.

Kit Carson, "Uncle Dick" Wooten, Joaquin Leroux, and Tom Tobin were the principal scouts and guides accompanying the expedition, having volunteered their services to Major Greer, which he had gladly accepted.

They were of course pleased with the road and liked to travel over it, but that toll gate was as "a dash of cold water in their faces." They called it Dick Wooten's highway robbery scheme.

After Uncle Dick's road was completed and the stage coaches began to travel over it his house was turned into a stage station and you can guess that Uncle Dick Wooten had many a stage story to relate to the "tenderfoot" who chose his house to order a meal or sleep in his beds.