#1 New Harvest, Jesse Stuart #2 Beyond Dark Hills, Jesse Stuart #3 Bluetick Pig, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Kentucky Women, Eugenia Potter #5 (tie) Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert [...]
In 1985, I moved to Ashland to assume the executive and literary leadership of the Jesse Stuart Foundation, an organization that had been created in 1979, five years before Stuart’s death, to manage his literary estate. With assistance from hundreds of people, including Keith [...]
#1 New Harvest, Jesse Stuart #2 Sergeant Sandlin: Kentucky’s Forgotten Hero, James M. Gifford #3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #5 The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert
#1 New Harvest, Jesse Stuart #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #5 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart
The court-martial of Daniel Boone is a well authenticated but quite obscure incident in the life of the famed frontiersman. Allan W. Eckert’s first full-length novel, “The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone,” recreates the legendary Kentuckian’s severest test – the trial for his life at [...]
JSF CEO & Senior Editor Dr. James M. Gifford (a Kentucky Colonel) accepts a grant award from Colonel Sherry Crose, executive director of the HOKC, during a ceremony on June 13. The Jesse Stuart Foundation received a $4,000 grant from the Honorable [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #3 Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones #4 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #5 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) Gateway of Empire, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #4 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart [...]
Oh, Jefferson, what you declared in ink Each hedgerow claimed a thousand times in blood! Phil Hardin, “Welcome to Hell” News anchor Tom Brokaw, in his two national best-selling books, called the veterans of WWII the “Greatest Generation.” They were men and women who [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 Appalachian Murders & Mysteries, Gifford and Pendarvis, eds. #3 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 Simon Kenton: Kentucky Scout, Thomas D. Clark #5 (tie) The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert
