Feb 26, 2015
Kit Carson was apprenticed to a saddle maker, David Workman of Franklin, Missouri, when he ran away and headed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1826.
Here is a daguerreotype of David Workman, the Missouri saddler, who traded with his brother William in Taos, New Mexico. It was probably taken in California after the Workman brothers were asked to leave New Mexico because of their bootlegging and their alleged participation in political conspiracies (both the Revolt of 1837 and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition).
Date: circa 1845-1855 Negative Number 013493