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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 ~ Sept. 13-19
#1 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #2 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Miss Willie, Janice Holt Giles #4 (tie) Strength From the Hills, Jesse Stuart #4 (tie) Twilight of Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert #4 (tie) The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert #5 (tie) Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First [...]
JSF best sellers ~ Sept. 6-12
#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert #2 The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys – The True Story, Dean King #3 (tie) The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart #3 (tie) The Hunters of Kentucky, Ted Franklin Belue #3 (tie) The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart #4 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart #5 Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert
Murder at Peddler’s Well in Greenup County
In his 1956 autobiography, “The Year of My Rebirth,” Jesse Stuart makes brief mention of the mid-nineteenth century murder of “Nick” Nickapopolis, a pack peddler who worked W-Hollow on a monthly basis in the 1850s. Little is known of “Nick”—the people of W-Hollow did not even know his first name so they called him Nick. Nick was one of several peddlers who visited W-Hollow, and he became a monthly [...]
JSF best sellers ~ Aug. 30-Sept. 5
#1 Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones #2 The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart #3 Warrior Woman, James Alexander Thom #4 Follow the River, James Alexander Thom #5 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert
One-room school life inspired famous books by Kentucky authors, including Miss Willie
One-room school life inspired two famous books by Kentucky authors. “The Thread That Runs So True” by Jesse Stuart is a nationally recognized autobiographical novel. Not as well-known but even more interesting is Janice Holt Giles’ novel, “Miss Willie,” set in the hills of South Central Kentucky in the 1950s. The story focuses on Miss Willie Payne, a second grade teacher in El Paso, Texas, who is bored with [...]