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Big Tom Wilson and Mitchell

Record #:
18693
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Abstract:
After Daniel Boone, North Carolina's most famous mountain man was Big Tom Wilson, who was a noted guide, tracker, bear hunter, and master story teller who lived in Yancey County. When Dr. Elisha Mitchell, in seeking to prove the height of a mountain later named for him, disappeared, it was Tom Wilson who lead a search party to find Mitchell's body in 1857 that brought him nationwide fame.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 10 Issue 16, Sept 1942, p5, 21