This book, except that portion of it illustrating the Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters, the great hermit Hunter and trapper, comprises a series of articles written for a weekly newspaper, partly for pastime, and partly to preserve for the use of the future historian a few facts connected with the Early settlement of Southwestern Virginia, and which otherwise might have been lost.
These facts, together with attempted descriptions of various localities, and all that the book contains, have.
This book, except that portion of it illustrating the Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters, the great hermit Hunter and trapper, comprises a series of articles written for a weekly newspaper, partly for pastime, and partly to preserve for the use of the future historian a few facts connected with the Early settlement of Southwestern Virginia, and which otherwise might have been lost