2026
 Long Rifle Fundraiser

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Artisan Simeon England has donated a Hammer Pole Tomahawk as our 2025-2026 Fundraiser. Drawing will be at the 2026 Siege on Sunday afternoon at 4 pm..

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The Fort Boonesborough Foundation Joins the Winchester/
Clark County Chamber of Commerce

Local members of the Fort Boonesborough Foundation gathered on April 22, 2025 to officially join the Chamber of Commerce. President Kristi Heasley holds the scissors to “cut the ribbon.”

March special on Randell Jones Book
In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone

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Includes “The Firsts in Kentucky” - a researched list of things that occurred at Boonesborough like the first legislative session, the first church service and more...

$5.00 +S&H

Buying for multiple grandchildren, day care or class
Pack of 5 - $25.00 +S&H

In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone

Revised Edition                        $29.00 +S&H

By Randell Jones

This biography of America’s pioneer hero tells his life story by putting it on the landscape, illustrated by photographs captured of living history reenactors during the last 20 years.

Colonel John Holder
Boonesborough Defender and Kentucky Entrepreneur

By Harry Enoch                                           $25.00 +S&H

Follow the story of Col. John Holder, one of the heroic defenders of Boonesborough, and commander of the fort after Daniel Boone left Kentucky, in this detailed new book by author Harry Enoch.

Images of America
Bonesborough

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$27.00 + S+H

by Harry Enoch

Boonesborough is one of America’s most
 historic and scenic places

With the opening of the replica fort at the state park, visitors now have an opportunity to take a walk back in history—a journey to the western frontier of 1775.

Settling Boonesborough
Journals, Letters and Other Documents, 1775
by Harry Enoch & Anne Crabb

Few places have a more storied past than Boonesborough, the Kentucky frontier outpost of the Transylvania Company. Boonesborough was a major focal point for the host of pioneers migrating West in 1775 and thereafter. This tiny settlement on the banks of Kentucky River would weather multiple Indian attacks, the capture and rescue of the daughters of Daniel Boone and Richard Callaway, the capture and captivity of Boone's salt makers, and a protracted siege of the fort by more the 400 Shawnee Indians. This work tells the story of Boonesborough's first year from journals, letters and other documents of 1775.

$19.00 + S&H

Boone’s role in recovering his daughter Jemima and Betsy and Fanny Callaway contributed to his becoming the most celebrated Kentuckian of the 18th century. His part in the capture and rescue was the subject of endless telling and retelling of the events

$23.00 + S&H

Chalfant also includes background on the family that found and donated the antler, in addition to a look at the time line that would have put Daniel Boone in the area in 1778 (the date scribed on the antler.

Proceeds from this book bebefit The Fort Boonesborough Foundation.

$20.00 +S&H

O'Malley also delves into the lives of the settlers who lived there and explores the Transylvania Company's dashed hopes of forming a fourteenth colony at the fort. This insightful and informative work is a fascinating exploration into Kentucky's frontier past.

  On the rare occasions they are mentioned, they are usually referred to not by name but as someone’s “servant” or “negro.”  Over the next two centuries very little was added to the story of blacks at Boonesborough

Boone Trace - Opening the Western Frontier by George Chalfant

A Historical Perspective of Boone Trace in Kentucky 1775-1795
$14.00 (includes sales tax)

Firearms and Ammunition Used by Fort Defenders and Native Americans at Fort Boonesborough 1777-1778

by George Chalfant
$17.00 (includes sales tax)

 Women at Fort Boonesborough

Fort Boonesborough is one of Kentucky's most historic places and, although seldom mentioned in popular accounts, women were present from the very beginning. This work includes women whose presence at the fort can be reasonably documented by historical evidence. The time period was limited to the years between 1774, when the fort was established, and 1784, when the threat of Indian attacks had subsided and the fort's stockade walls were taken down.
$17.00 (includes sales tax)

And the Battle Began Like Claps of Thunder

The Siege  of Fort Boonesborough 1778- As Told by The Pioneers. Compiled and edited by Anne Crabb

$27.00 (includes sales tax)

Pioneer Voices

By Harry G. Enoch

This work focuses on the first-hand accounts of men and women who came to Clark County, Kentucky during the early settlement period, 1775-1800. The accounts are drawn from the interviews conducted by Rev. John D. Shane with aging pioneers in the 1840s and 50s. To make their stories accessible to modern readers, thirty-two interviews and one memoir were transcribed from microfilm and explanatory material was added.

Paperback – November 20, 2012   142 pages

$19.00 + S+H

Captain Billy Bush

Clark County, Kentucky A Family History
By Harry G. Enoch

No one played a more important role in the settlement of Clark County than Capt. William "Billy" Bush. Born in Orange County, Virginia, Billy came out with Daniel Boone in 1775, resided for a time at Fort Boones- borough, then spent the rest of his life living a few miles from the fort. He thus became one of the first permanent settlers in Kentucky.

Hardcover – October 23, 2015 - 392 pages, indexed

$27.00 +S+H

Bound for New Orleans

Edited by Harry G. Enoch

John Halley's journals provide the earliest first-hand accounts of the voyage down the Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Halley supplies insightful accounts of what became one of Kentucky's major early industries-shipping goods and produce by flatboat to the port of New Orleans-and he does so almost at the birth of that industry, just two years after Gen. James Wilkinson's inaugural trip in 1787.
Paperback, illustrated 52 pages

$11.00 +S+H

The Fort Boonesborough Foundation is pleased to add a DVD entitled The 1778 Siege of Fort Boonesborough. Telling the story of the great Siege the film was produced by Graphic Enterprises/Pioneer Times in 2008 and shot live at The Fort Boonesborough Siege Re-Enactment. It also includes a section from Fort Manager Bill Farmer about the historic significance of The Siege. A portion of the proceeds to support the Foundations mission.

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 William Calk’s Journal of a Trip to Boonesborough in 1775

Edited By Harry Enoch with all proceeds supporting the Fort Boonesborough Foundation.
$12.00 (includes sales tax)

On April 15, 2017 Fort Boonesborough State Park will have the official opening of The Daniel Boone Memorabilia Collection.  After a lifetime of collecting, Mr. Ray Buckberry of Bowling Green, Kentucky has donated his memorabilia collection to the Fort Boonesborough Foundation. The Foundation has placed the collection on loan to the State Park. Mr. Buckberry along with members of the foundation will be present at the opening at 1:30 pm inside the fort.

Mr. Buckberry collected everything Daniel Boone including a large assortment of items featuring Fess Parker and the TV Series of the same name. Items included are books, art prints and everything from lunch boxes to lamps. The Foundation members have found cases, catalogued, and set up the item displays. One cabin at the fort will be devoted to the Memorabilia, both in the cases, along with prints, photos and framed items on the walls. In addition, a case has been added to the campground store where visitors to the campground can also view items.

A whole generation grew up with Daniel Boone on television and a new younger generation is now being exposed to those shows on western and retro cable channels. Although the Foundation acknowledges that not all the items are correct to the time period, it is still a wonderful look at the impact Daniel Boone had on the American public.

The Fort is open 9-5 Wednesday to Sunday, April thru October. Other cabins are staffed with period dressed personal who can talk with visitors about life in the 18th century.

Fort Boonesborough Foundation, Inc.
4375 Boonesborough Road
Richmond, Kentucky 40475
859-527-3131