#1 The Beatinest Boy, Jesse Stuart
#2 A Penny’s Worth of Character, Jesse Stuart
#3 The Frontiersmen, Allan W. Eckert
#4 (tie) Miss Willie, Janice Holt Giles
#4 (tie) Strength From the Hills, Jesse Stuart
#4 (tie) Twilight of Empire, Allan W. Eckert
#4 (tie) Wilderness Empire, Allan W. Eckert
#4 (tie) The Wilderness War, Allan W. Eckert
#5 (tie) Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792, Ted Franklin Belue
#5 (tie) The Tale of the Devil: The Biography of Devil Anse Hatfield, Dr. Colman C. Hatfield & Robert Y. Spence
