Short Dive; The Legend of Bill Wilson

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Howdy and Welcome back to Wild West Deep Dives.
This Short Dive is about a man named Bill Wilson, he was a Missouri Bushwhacker during the American Civil War. A Bushwhacker, is a confederate symphosizer who is not associated with the Confederate Army, a Jayhawker, was a Union symphosizer who is not associated with the Union army. Both sides had these guerrilla fighters that raised hell during the war.
This episode was inspired by a book called; Bushwhacker, by George Clinton Arthur. I will be doing my own short of story telling, but all the information, events, quotes, etc. came from Mr. Arthurs book.
Bill Wilson was also the inspiration behind the movie; Outlaw Josey Wales.
Reminder; I titled this episode "The Legend" of Bill Wilson as there are not many cold hard facts that can be found on Mr. Wilson. This episode was a lot of fun to research and record as there are voice actors, sound effects, anything I could do to make it seem authentic and like you are in the moment. I hope y'all enjoy it!
Next week; the episode will be a little update episode as I have episodes in the works, but I'll only release episodes when I have series completed, I don't want to release an episode and then have to skip a week because the next one isn't finished.
Thank you all for the love and support, y'all are amazing!
Sources;
o Book; Bushwhacker, A Story of Missouri’s Most Famous Desperado, by George Clinton Arthur (1)

o https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/the-real-josey-wales (2)

o Youtube video from historian; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Moz9zThCvU&t=174s (3)

o https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1523619/m1/7/ (4)

o https://www.phelpscountyfocus.com/article_8079a254-6376-11e8-b036-43d368cc4ad2.html (5)

o https://www.arnoldmo.org/bushwhackers-and-jayhawkers-terrorized-jefferson-county-during-civil-war/ (6)

o https://www.phelpscountyfocus.com/article_8079a254-6376-11e8-b036-43d368cc4ad2.html (5)

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