David Wright's painting — Gateway to the West — which greets travelers in the Visitor's Center at Cumberland Gap National Historical...

In the fall of 2000, I got a phone call from a ranger at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, inviting me to participate in a...

Photo by Barbara Bell of Ted Franklin Belue as a British gunner on the ramparts of Fort William Henry, during his seven week stint the...

Not all of my research was conducted in a library. I learned an immeasurable amount from an amazing community of historical reenactors at...

Now that Traces has, at long last, made its way into the world, it feels like the right time to address a question authors of historical...

As I dug into the documents Draper had collected, trying to trace the roots of the Boone rumors, it dawned on me that whether the stories...

At the end of his life, Lyman Draper considered himself a failure. “I have wasted my life in puttering,” he wrote. His goal had been to...

John Filson’s lack of interest in Rebecca fueled my determination to learn everything I could about her. I went back to the book that had...

I had no idea what I was setting in motion on the day in 1996 when I spotted a biography of Daniel Boone on a bookstore shelf. It had...

I’m thrilled that my novel, Traces, a retelling of the Daniel Boone saga from the women’s point of view, will be published in the fall of...