#1 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert

#2 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart

#3 (tie) Appalachian Values, Loyal Jones

#3 (tie) Cruelly Murdered, Keven McQueen

#4 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart

#5 The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792, Ted Franklin Belue