Out here on the frontier of memory, history still rides beside us. This episode of Cowboy Cantos honors William “Bill” Pool of Missouri — a man whose life stretches across two centuries, binding the muskets of the Civil War to the tanks of World War II.
Bill Pool was born in 1925, the son of Charles Parker Pool, a Union soldier who fought and bled in the Civil War. Charles lived long enough to father Bill at the age of eighty, making Bill not just a son, but a living bridge across time.
