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Big Tom Wilson Personified the nineteenth image of the Appalachian Mountain Man. A hunter, a tracker, and guide who roamed the Black Mountains in Yancey County, he become legendary for his bear hunting skills. As more tourists discovered the region, he supplemented his income by leading them up the horse trail to the summit of Mount Mitchell. Two events in 1887 spread his fame far and wide. First, he found the body of Elisha Mitchell whose furious controversy with Thomas Clingman as to which peak was the true summit of Mount Mitchell, had drawn nation attention and who fell to his death from a forty foot waterfall on the mountain\u2019s side. And second, Harper\u2019s Magazine published praising Wilson\u2019s woodcraft skills.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Big Tom Wilson, a legendary tracker, guide, and bear hunter whose death was reported in the New York Times, roamed the Mt. Mitchell area in the early 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\"\"<\/span>\r\n

Big Tom Wilson Personified the nineteenth image of the Appalachian Mountain Man. A hunter, a tracker, and guide who roamed the Black Mountains in Yancey County, he become legendary for his bear hunting skills. As more tourists discovered the region, he supplemented his income by leading them up the horse trail to the summit of Mount Mitchell. Two events in 1887 spread his fame far and wide. First, he found the body of Elisha Mitchell whose furious controversy with Thomas Clingman as to which peak was the true summit of Mount Mitchell, had drawn nation attention and who fell to his death from a forty foot waterfall on the mountain\u2019s side. And second, Harper\u2019s Magazine published praising Wilson\u2019s woodcraft skills.<\/span><\/blockquote>\r\n

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