Kentucky Cannibal: The Life and Times of Boone Helm

By J.B. Fox

Virginia City, Montana Territory. January 1864. Tomorrow at dawn, they will hang him.

Boone Helm has spent his life running: from Kentucky to California gold country to the frozen passes of the Blue Mountains. Robber, road agent, mountain man. And now, legend for the worst reason of all.

On his last night alive, locked in a jail cell while the hangman tests his rope outside, Helm tells his own story for the first time. Not the newspaper version. His version. From a boyhood with horses and hunger in Kentucky to a winter when survival asked the unthinkable, this is a confession about what a man does, what he tells himself after, and what he cannot outrun.

Told in spare, haunting prose, Kentucky Cannibal is a literary western about guilt, memory, and the price of the frontier myth.

Perfect for readers of True Grit, The Revenant, and Cormac McCarthy who want a short, sharp novel that stays with them.

Praise for the voice: Plainspoken. Unflinching. Unexpectedly tender. You will not forget the night you spent with Boone Helm.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HK1567XK
• ISBN13: 9798174788763
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"