Nate Walker picked up leatherworking at twelve, spending his teenage years making wallets and belts for friends and family before opening an Etsy shop from his Arizona workshop in 2016. By 2020 the hobby had grown large enough that he went full-time, naming the business Lost Dutchman Leather after the legendary lost gold mine in the nearby Superstition Mountains. Everything is still hand-cut and hand-stitched in Apache Junction, Arizona, using full-grain leather sourced from tanneries including Horween.