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Allan Eckert’s Winning of America Series
This Jesse Stuart Foundation best-selling series details accounts of frontiersmen and Native Americans and many dramatic events of the time period. Many years of research went into this popular series that also tells the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement.
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Jesse Stuart Junior Books
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JSF best sellers ~ July 11-17
#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart #3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #4 White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #5 Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert
Beyond Dark Hills
Ninety years ago, a young man from Kentucky borrowed $150, gathered up his Oliver typewriter, packed a trunk short on clothes and long on manuscript pages, and headed for Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a master’s degree. He was essentially a farmer, and he was impressed with what he had heard about the Agrarians, a group of Vanderbilt writers who were more interested in the land than [...]
JSF best sellers ~ July 4-10
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Allan W. Eckert #2 (tie) That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley, Allan W. Eckert #3 Come Back to the Farm, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) Kentucky is My Land, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) To Teach, To Love, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) Come Gentle Spring, Jesse Stuart #5 (tie) [...]
JSF best sellers ~ June 27-July 3
#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 #5 (tie) White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler
Jesse Stuart: Personal Reflections
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 Kappes, a Vice President at Morehead State University, Judy B. Thomas, President of the Ashland Oil Foundation, and former state librarian Wayne Onkst, I have [...]