Per fortuna, si fa più spesso di quel che si crede: si studiano le fonti del passato, e si pensa di collegare la figura di Luke Skywalker, l'eroe di Star Wars, con un eroe del Wisconsin.
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[2015.12,17. Bill Hillman]
Is Luke Skywalker of ‘Star Wars’ inspired by Wisconsin war hero.
Milwaukee-Wisconsin JOURNAL SENTINEL ~ December 16, 2015 ~ by Meg JONES.
A local historian thinks the “Star Wars” character Luke Skywalker was likely based on Howard Bass Cushing, a Civil War hero born in Milwaukee.
A number of researchers of the life and works of writer Edgar Rice Burroughs – Michael Sellers, Frank Puncer, and myself – provided information to lend credence to this theory. I had a long telephone conversation last week with Milwaukee journalist Meg Jones who was requesting background information that she could use in this article. I mentioned that we had suggested such a link numerous times over the years in our ERBzine articles and sent her an abundance of relevant ERBzine.com links to back up the theory. She drew heavily on the information in these links and even used one of my quotes from our phone interview 
"You couldn't grow up in the 20th century without being exposed to the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs," said Bill Hillman, a Burroughs historian and editor of ERBzine and Burroughs websites. "He's inspired people from Jane Goodall to astronauts to Carl Sagan. It was his stories and imagination that infused them with the will to pursue their pursuits."
Bill Hillman
ERB in the Wild West
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