Champ Ferguson | Rebel Butcher
The Wild West Extravaganza
Wild West Josh
4.8 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | An engineer round the corner whenever you need. |
| 0:03.0 | British gas have over 6,000 on route at speed. |
| 0:06.0 | Fixing lights that won't light or have started to blink, |
| 0:10.0 | a pipe with a leak and that weird smell under the sink. |
| 0:13.0 | If your boilers kaput and your blue fur needs a rinse, |
| 0:17.0 | we've got your back to stop that cold water wince. |
| 0:20.0 | You don't need to be a customer. We can help you too, taking care of things. It's what British gas do. T's and C supply 6,000 engineers correct as of Jan 206. |
| 0:30.1 | On October 20th, 1865, Confederate Gorilla Champ Ferguson was marched to the Gallows over in Nashville, Tennessee. Just 10 days prior, he had been found guilty of 53 counts of murder. |
| 0:41.0 | And that was just the official number. |
| 0:43.1 | According to Ferguson himself, he had killed well over 100 men, friends, neighbors, wounded prisoners, |
| 0:48.8 | pretty much anyone he considered a threat or even a potential threat. |
| 0:52.7 | And even as the news was placed around his neck, |
| 0:54.8 | he remained defiant, stating that he was a southern man from the start and that he would die |
| 0:59.3 | a rebel. Who was the real champ Ferguson? A Confederate patriot just to finning his homeland against |
| 1:05.6 | Yankee aggressions, or just another cold-blooded killer using the war as an excuse to indulge |
| 1:10.7 | his bloodlust. |
| 1:12.1 | And what about the rumors that his death was nothing more than a hoax? |
| 1:15.1 | Stick around and find out, my name's Josh, and this is the Wild West extravaganza. |
| 1:34.5 | Samuel Champ Ferguson was born in Clinton County, Kentucky on November 29, 1821. |
| 1:39.0 | The eldest of 10 children, he grew up in what was known as the Kentucky Highlands, |
| 1:43.7 | hill country along the border with Tennessee that was mostly populated by poor farmers. |
| 1:48.2 | Now, I wasn't able to find out a ton of information regarding Ferguson's early life, |
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