WILBURN WATERS: A Gathering of Materials from unpublished and out of print sources. (Cover title: The Legendary Hermit-hunter of White Top Mountain)
Chilhowie, VA: Frank I. Detweiler, 1990. 1st edition, Limited and numbered. Wraps. (ca. 1990) 1st edition. A Fine copy. 4to., 5pp., illustrated with b&w photographs and 77 facsimile pages of Charles B. Coale's The Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters. Tan, illustrated dual-stapled paper wraps. Hand numbered copy, in the high 200s. Fine. Item #37123
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). During the Daniel Boone-craze of the 1950's, a monument to Waters was erected in Tuckerdale, NC.
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