The Dictator

EPISODE · Mar 19, 2016 · 15 MIN

The Dictator

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

In the mid-19th century, American “filibusters” descended on Latin America with an eye on extending the United States’ influence over the area. The most notorious of these men was William Walker of Tennessee, who led his band of Tennessee and Kentucky mercenaries into Nicaragua, where he made himself dictator. To this day, Walker’s name is […]

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