Ted Franklin Belue

Ted Franklin Belue, a 2021 winner of the Western Writers of America’s prestigious Spur Award, wrote Finding Daniel Boone, The Hunters of Kentucky and The Long Hunt. He edited two Boone biographies, including Lyman Draper’s landmark Life of Daniel Boone—the classic reference on Boone and trans-Appalachian Long Hunters—and published more than 100 essays in trade and scholarly publications. In 2018 he retired from Murray State University’s Department of History.

Ted can be heard on the award-winning MeatEater podcast site (www.themeateater.com), Episode 288: Viscera and Bone. He has served as consultant/commentator for the INSP Network’s “Wild Americans” and Outdoor Channel’s SHOOTING USA, History Channel (doubling on-screen in various 18th century guises), A&E, BBC, NBC, and NPR. He survived the French and Indian War as a Hollywood extra in The Last of the Mohicans and lives in Kentucky with his wife Lavina, their cats and dog, and guitars, old Fender amps and banjos.