The John M. Cleary Homestead Honoree Award is presented to a company or individual who is affiliated with Western Writers of America and has shown exceptional support for WWA and for the literature of the West.

• 2023 Michael R. “Cowboy Mike” Searles
• 2022 Montana, the Magazine of Western History
• 2021 Grand Encampment Museum
• 2020 South Dakota Historical Society Press
• 2019 Steve Moulton
• 2018 McCracken Research Library, Cody, WY
• 2017 Kansas City Public Library, Missouri Valley Collection
• 2016 Greeley Hatworks
• 2015 National Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock, TX
• 2014 Jan Constantine, The Author’s Guild
• 2013 James Donovan
• 2012 Cherry Weiner
• 2011 Dan Slater, Amazon.com
• 2010 Larry Yoder
• 2009 Gary Goldstein, Kensington Books
• 2008 Eric Weider, Wild West Magazine