Wilbur Smith detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. "My father was a tough man", said Smith. "He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very
Wilbur F. Davidson House and turned his efforts from dry goods to the electricity business. Over the rest of his life, Davidson organized a number of power companies and electric railways, and branched into other real estate and financial businesses in Port Huron. In 1890, Davidson constructed this house for his family. He lived there until his death in 1912, after which his daughter Cornelia mived in with her husband, Alfred West. They lived there until Alfred's death in 1950. Don Hampton purchased the house in 1951. In 1970, preservationists sought to restore the house, and renovations continued during the early 1970s. The Wilbur