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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 ~ March 7-13
#1 The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #3 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #5 The Final Tide, Norma Cole
JSF best sellers ~ Feb. 28-March 6
#1 White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley, Arville Wheeler #2 A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Allan W. Eckert #3 Hidden Heroes of the Big Sandy Valley, James M. Gifford, editor #4 Gateway to Empire, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) Kentucky is My Land, Jesse Stuart
In Praise of Appalachian Women
I offer this essay about my grandmother as my tribute to Women’s History Month. My father was an alcoholic who deserted us when my brother and I were infants. My mother was mentally and emotionally handicapped. She was incapable of gainful support and sat at home in rags while my aging grandmother, Clara Moore Clark, taught and supported us. As a little boy, I imagined that my grandmother was [...]
JSF author to be inducted into Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame
Loyal Jones at the 2018 Kentucky Book Fair. Jesse Stuart Foundation author Loyal Jones will be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington on March 24. Other inductees include author George Ella Lyon, former state historian James C. Klotter, groundbreaking Black journalist Ted Poston, and poet Robert Hazel. Loyal is a prolific writer and scholar of Appalachian culture. A [...]
JSF best sellers ~ Feb. 21-27
#1 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #2 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #3 Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees, Allan W. Eckert #4 The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #5 The Conquerors, Allan W. Eckert