Crazy Tom Hansen

"They do say that dogs are a man's best friend, Nate ,hehehe!"

                     ~Tom Hansen

About
Judging by his name, this obviously sudgests that Tom is carzy or is going insane.Other than that, he seems to be completely harmless.His full name is Tom N Hansen.He was born August 21st,1799.He has a wif and two kids who are not seen but are mentioned and implied to be living with him and his parents in his small island shake throughout the story.He is one if the supporting characters helping Nate and Sheriff Pratt in some of their adventures and even comes to assist occasionally at the Fisher's Homestead.

Interactions throughout the story
Nate rescues Tom and his family from Thompson's Gang members committing arson and attempting to burn his house along with him and his family down with it.Tom rewards Nate and Sheriff Pratt after the bounty battle.The three converse about legends of gold and other treasures out near the Aztec Temple, Mezunstapl.They ride over that area and have a brief clash with the banditos terrorizing Wooden Barrel Village and settlers in the surrounding areas.This is the place where they also rescue Jose Acevedo.

Appearance

 * He wears a chipped felt-broad/wide-brimmed hat, light brown in color
 * He has minimal facial hair other than a medium-size beard,gray and black in color and three teeth
 * He also sports a poor-condition carvat from his early 1800s childhood
 * Along to a white shirt, he also has blue-jean overalls in mid-condition as well
 * In addition to that, he even wears old black chaps with several holes and sewed-on patches visible too
 * He has well-kept brown boots that are spurless unlike Nate and most other male characters of the story.

Trivia

 * Though he is stated to be "crazy", he has a full living, and stable large family and has never caused any form of harm
 * He is declared insane by much of the story's characters due to the oddest obsessions that he posseses being, sugar and sugar cane, fish as he eats it most commonly for breakfast,lunch,and dinner,hats and dogs that in large numbers surround his house.
 * It is revealed he was once a blacksmith as a young boy back east in Maryland in the mid-1810s
 * He also wants be a forty-niner in San Fransisco, California
 * His hometown is Baltimore, Maryland along with his wife
 * He was born on Sunday, August 21st, 1799 to a middle-class family on a small plantation/ranch as aforementioned in the article
 * His family operated a farm that was slave-free
 * It is also revealed that he only has 3 teeth left
 * Wide brimmed hats were commonly worn commonly in the American frontier and were a sort of pre-cowboy(ten gallon hat)
 * After viewing his skin, you can easily and clearly conclude that he may have the poorest hygiene of any non-outlaw/gang affiliated character
 * He also has a lazy eye
 * One way to tell his odd love of dogs is by his famous quote that he uses to Nate in the story