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Born in North Carolina in 1787, William Sherley Williams may not have been the most famous mountain man, but he was one of the most interesting.

Proud of his feats of daring, strength, and valor, he felt no need for protection, and often traveled alone earning him the name Old Solitaire, and Lone Elk.

   The end of the revolutionary war was not the end of conflict or chaos, and heading west sounded like a good idea.

In his younger years Old Bill was a preacher, bent on missionary work. 

  He translated the bible into the O-sage language,

The Osage Nation is a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Great Plains.

The tribe developed in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 BC along with other groups of its language family.

They migrated west after after the 17th century, settling near the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and Oklahoma as a result of Iroquois invading the Ohio Valley in a search for new hunting grounds.

Old bill was the interpreter for the 1825 treaty between the Osage and the United States.

But in the end, it was the Osage who converted him rather than the other way around.