THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILBURN WATERS, The Famous Hunter and Trapper of White Top Mountain; Embracing Early History of Southwestern Virginia Sufferings Of The Pioneers, Etc., Etc.

Coale, Charles B.

Verlag: G.W. Gary & Co, Richmond, 1878

Beschreibung

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. 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30132

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILBURN WATERS, ...

Verlag: G.W. Gary & Co, Richmond

Erscheinungsdatum: 1878

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good+

Auflage: 1st edition.