Ted Franklin Belue

Ted Franklin Belue is the author of The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’ s First Far West and The Long Hunt: Death of the Buffalo East of the Mississippi and edited two Daniel Boone biographies. Belue is heavily published in trade and academic press, has served as consultant and commentator for the History Channel and has been an advisor for A&E, BBC and NBC; he also survived the French and Indian War as a Hollywood extra in The Last of the Mohicans. He lives in Kentucky with his wife, Lavina, and a horde of dogs, cats and guitars.