Character Model: Dutch van der Linde
Hans was born in Fort Garland, Colorado to Daniel and Delilah Wilson in 1850, his mother was a Hotel hostess and his father a Banker but when the Civil War broke out Hans' father was forced out to fight.
In 1864 his father was killed by cannon fire leaving him and his mother lacking a steady income so in 1865 in a blind bid for money Hans decided to go about his dream of owning his own gun store and with the last of his families savings he moved south and bought a gun store in Tumbleweed.
Hans made a good living in Tumbleweed for the best part of twenty years but when the railway that was now sprawling across the West went right past town without a stop his once profitable business went down hill with more and more people leaving Tumbleweed to find work where the railway was present.
Because of this more and more vagabonds and criminals started to creep into town, however Hans was too stubborn and full of pride to leave and eventually got angrier and angrier with the world until he became what he hated the most, a criminal.
Truth.