THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILBURN WATERS, The Famous Hunter and Trapper of White Top Mountain; Embracing Early History of Southwestern Virginia
Richmond: G.W. Gary & Co., 1878. 1st edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1878. A Good+ copy. 8vo., 265 pp., rebound in red cloth with title on spine in gilt. Title page is damp stained with a previous owners signature (Hon. Chas. D. Fox). Page 125/126 is missing lower half diagonally. Text is clean and unmarked. HOWES aa C507. Good+. Item #30132
Wilburn Waters (1812-1879) was a one-man wildlife exterminating machine, earning money from, and eating, the animals that he killed. He was praised by Appalachian farmers for single-handedly wiping out the wolf population along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line (It has never recovered). He lived alone, on a mountaintop, but would regularly walk miles to church and would not tolerate profanity in his presence. - Roadside America.
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