American Schemers: William Walker

WILLIAM WALKER was a young man in a hurry but he couldn’t decide where he was going. In 1838, at 14, he graduated from the University of Nashville. At 19, he earned a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. But he didn’t enjoy doctoring, so he studied law in New Orleans. Lawyering also failed …

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