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. By Charles B. Coale Published 1878, 265 pages - Bonus Book - Magazine of American HistoryVolume II, 1878, 783 pages Includes original book review for “Wilburn Waters” Requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View $13.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Wilburn-Waters-Life-and-Adventures-VA-NC-TN_W0QQitemZ200443956511QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2eab640d1f The author of this sketchy volume was for thirty-three years editor of the Abingdon Virginian, and the chapters which compose it were originally parts of a series of articles written for this weekly paper for the purpose of preserving for the use of historians scattered facts connected with the settlement of South-western Virginia. The early chapters tell about Wilburn Waters, an early settler who lived and trapped on White Top (now Iron) Mountain, near the VA, NC and TN borders The later chapters contain matter of more historic importance ; accounts of the first settlement in Southwest Virginia at St. Clair's Bottom, in what is now Smyth county, where an adventurer of this name fixed his home about 1755. the period of Braddock's defeat. The soils and products of Washington county, the saltworks, the natural curiosities of Tazewell county are carefully described, and traditions of pioneer life, and reminiscences of the war are narrated with an easy pen. Please follow link to see full Table of Contents.