#1 White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) Simon Kentucky: Kentucky Scout, Thomas [...]
Several years ago, as my tribute to Veterans’ Day, I wrote about Willie Sandlin, Kentucky’s only World War I Medal of Honor recipient. Last year, I wrote a lengthy essay, “In Praise of Appalachian Soldiers,” which was serialized in the Daily Independent. This year, [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #3 (tie) The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #4 Gateway to Empire, [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Allan W. Eckert #3 Simon Kenton: Kentucky Scout, Thomas D. Clark #4 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #5 The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert [...]
Best known for his nonfiction work “Night Comes to the Cumberlands,” Harry M. Caudill also wrote fiction, including “Dark Hills to Westward: The Saga of Jenny Wiley,” first published in 1969 and recently reprinted in a new softback edition by the Jesse Stuart Foundation. [...]
#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 Bluetick Pig, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) The Rightful Owner, Jesse Stuart #5 The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert [...]
The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, November 30 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2:00 pm; book discussion at 2:30 pm. This is the last meeting of the year; we will take a break and resume meeting in March 2022. [...]
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #3 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #4 Bluetick Pig, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) Old Ben, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #3 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 Gateway to Empire, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) Johnny Logan: The True [...]
Charles Manson was a sociopath, a criminal, and a lifelong predator. He achieved national and world-wide infamy as the leader of “the Manson family,” a commune of his murderous followers that developed in the late 1960s in the California desert. However, long before Charles [...]
