Randell Jones is an author and storyteller. He is the author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone, winner of the 2006 Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, and the author of In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett. He produced On the Trail of Daniel Boone, the companion DVD. It received a 2006 Paul Green Multimedia Award from the NC Society of Historians. With his then-teenage daughter, he co-edited in 2004 Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State by Dr. HG Jones (no relation). A second edition was released in 2007.

Randell is an invited member of the Road Scholars Speakers' Bureau of the NC Humanities Council for 2008-2010. He is also a past-president of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association and consults with the National Park Service on the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail. He appears annually as a volunteer storyteller to school groups during Overmountain Victory Days sponsored by the National Park Service and hosted at the Museum of NC Minerals on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

In 2009, Randell is involved in the national celebration of the 275th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Boone, America's pioneer hero. In 2006, he organized the region-wide celebration of the 250th anniversary of the marriage of Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan on Aug. 14, 1756 in today's Davie County, NC, not far from his home.

He lives in Winston-Salem, NC. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill. His ancestors lived in East Tennessee during the time David Crockett was there.

Randell speaks to groups of varying size on topics related to American heritage and North Carolina history. If you would like him to speak to your group, please contact him at DBooneFootsteps@aol.com.