I do not accept your premise. I met Tony Poe.
If you didn't know: he's the one Marlon Brando's *Colonel Kurtz* character was very loosely modeled after for trhe film Apocalypse Now.
All I know about any of them is what I have read. He does sound like a great man.
My Father briefly met Bull Simons in DeFuniak Springs. His Son had a small gun and gunsmiths shop in DeFuniak but it was not doing well and closed before too long. I did do a little trading with him.