Source:Coale, Charles B. the Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters

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Coale, Charles B. 1878. 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. Richmond.

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Source:Coale, 1878

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The name Wilburn Waters evokes awe among hunters in Western North Carolina and Southwest Virginia. Associate editor and proprietor of the Abingdon Virginian and a personal friend of Waters, Coale engagingly tells of the amazing hunter and woodsman.Born in 1812 to a French Huguenot father and half-Catawba mother, Wilburn (the youngest of five children) was orphaned when about three years old. Apprenticed to a saddler, his time was sold to the Wilkes County sheriff, and at age seventeen, he ran away to the mountains. The next few years were spent as a laborer. During this time, Wilburn received his introduction to hunting dangerous game by trapping and killing a wolf that experienced trappers thought uncatchable. Similar trappings followed, spreading the hunter's fame.In 1832, Wilburn settled on White Top Mountain, where he hunted bears, deer, and wolves. Of the latter, he sometimes pursued entire packs, one time returning from his winter's hunt with forty-two wolves killed. Included in this work is the article "Wilburn Waters: The Hermit-Hunter of White Top Mountain", written by Douglas Summers Brown and published in the Summer 1977 issue of Virginia Calvacade.