Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters: The Famous Hunter and Traper of White Top Mountain With no further apology or explanation this little volume of multifarious small things is thrown into the tide of current literature, not without hope that it may afford a few hours' pleasant pastime at the fireside of the moun taineer, and some of its facts form the nucleus of a much more comprehensive work by an abler pen, embodying the history of our own beauti ful Southwestern Virginia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.