| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2009 |
|
Meredith Mason Brown |
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America |
| 2008 |
|
Robert W. Larson |
Gall |
| 2007 |
|
Kingsley M. Bray |
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life |
| 2006 |
|
Candy Moulton |
|
| 2005 |
|
Thom Hatch |
Black Kettle |
| 2004 |
|
Ernest Haycox |
On A Silver Desert: The Life of Ernest Haycox |
| 2003 |
|
James L. Haley |
Sam Houston |
| 2002 |
|
Mark Thompson |
American Character |
| 2001 |
|
Donald Worster |
A river running west |
| 2000 |
|
Felix D. Almaraz, Jr. |
Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958 |
| 1999 |
|
Ronald L. Davis |
Duke |
| 1998 |
|
Lynn Bridgers |
Death's Deceiver |
| 1996 |
|
Leon Claire Metz |
John Wesley Hardin |
| 1995 |
|
Alan Rosenus |
General M.G. Vallejo and the advent of the Americans |
| 1994 |
|
David Dixon |
Hero of Beecher Island |
| 1993 |
|
Joann Mazzio |
Leaving Eldorado |
