Winners

Best Western Biography

Winner:	Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family	Jane Little Botkin	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise	Doug Hocking	TwoDot
Finalist:	Tejano Tiger: José de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891	Jerry Thompson	TCU Press

Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Winner:	A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century	Flannery Burke	University of Arizona Press
Finalist:	Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech	Jeffrey A. Lockwood	University of New Mexico Press
Finalist:	Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind	Steve Friesen with Francois Chladiuk	University of Oklahoma Press

Winner:	American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890	Jerome A. Greene	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Chasing the Santa Fe Ring: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico	David L. Caffey	University of New Mexico Press
Finalist:	South Pass: Gateway to a Continent	Will Bagley	University of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Winner:	Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster	Angela Day	Washington State University Press
Finalist:	Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature’s Edge	Lincoln Bramwell	University of Washington Press
Finalist:	Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land	Dan O’Brien	University of Nebraska Press

Best Western Biography

Winner:	Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn	Philip Burnham	Bison Book/University Nebraska Press
Finalist:	Tom Horn in Life and Legend	Larry D. Ball	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane	Richard W. Etulain	University of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	Edward Wynkoop: Soldier and IndianAgent	Nancy Oswald	Filter Press
Finalist:	Battle of Little Bighorn	John Hamilton	Abdo Publishing Co.
Finalist:	How the West Was Drawn: Women’s Art	Linda L. Osmundson	Pelican Publishing Company

Best First Nonfiction Book

Winner:

Reshaw: The Life & Times of John Baptiste Richard

Jefferson Glass

High Plains Press

Best Western Storyteller (llustrated Children’s Book)

Winner:	Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend	Donald F. Montileaux	South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Finalist:	Alice From Dallas	Marilyn Sadler (author) Ard Hoyt (illustrator)	Abrams Books for Young Readers
Finalist:	Tumbleweed Baby	Anna Myers (author) Charles Vess (illustrator)	Abrams Books for Young Readers

Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:	“Fingers”	Andrew Geyer	Steven F. Austin University Press
Finalist:	“A Promise Broken, A Promise Kept”	Vicky Rose	La Frontera Publishing
Finalist:	“The Songbird of Seville”	Vonn McKee	Western Trail Blazer

Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“Calamity Jane: A Life and Legends”	Richard W. Etulain	Montana, The Magazine of Western History
Finalist:	“Finding the American West in Twenty-First Century Italy”	Renee M. Laegreid	Western Historical Quarterly
Finalist:	“The American West in the Age of Vulnerability”	Donald Worster	Western Historical Quarterly

Best Western Poem

Winner:	“A Little Longer Than the Moment”	Alan Birkelbach	Cowboy Poetry Press
Finalist:	“Homecoming”	Ken Hada	This Land Press
Finalist:	“Song of the Stampede”	Rod Miller	Pen-L Publishing

Best Western Song

Winner:	“Charlie and Evangeline”	Doug Figgs and Todd Carter	Figgs/Carter
Finalist:	“Cold Blue Eyes”	Mikki Daniel	Dave Alexander / MD Productions
Finalist:	“Lonesome Cowboy”	Martin Conway	Conway

Best Western Drama Script

Winner:

The Homesman

Tommy Lee Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald, Wesley A. Oliver

Ithaca Films

Best Western Documentary Script

Winner:

State of Jefferson

Kami Horton

Oregon Public Broadcasting

 

2014

Best Western Contemporary Novel

Winner:	Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel	James Lee Burke	Simon & Schuster
Finalist:	Kind of Kin	Rilla Askew	Ecco/HarperCollins
Finalist:	The Old Man’s Love Story	Rudolfo Anaya	University of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Historical Novel

Winner:	Silent We Stood	Henry Chappell	Texas Tech University Press
Finalist:	The Promise	Ann Weisgarber	Mantle/Pan Macmillan
Finalist:	Greasy Grass: A Story of the Little Big Horn	Johnny D. Boggs	Five Star Publishing

Best Western Traditional Novel

Winner:	Crossing Purgatory	Gary Schanbacher	Pegasus
Finalist:	Destiny Made Them Brothers	Andrew J. Fenady	Pinnacle/Kensington
Finalist:	The Hardest Ride	Gordon L. Rottman	Taliesin Publishing

Best First Novel

Winner:	Spider Woman’s Daughter	Anne Hillerman	HarperCollins
Finalist:	Crossing Purgatory	Gary Schanbacher	Pegasus
Finalist:	La Grulla	John R. Wright	Dryland Publishing

Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:	Shot all to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape	Mark Lee Gardner	William Morrow/HarperCollins
Finalist:	Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, The Press and the Little Bighorn	James E. Mueller	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	The Heart of Everything that Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend	Bob Drury and Tom Clavin	Simon & Schuster

Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:	Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country	William Philpott	University of Washington Press
Finalist:	Trees in Paradise: A California History	Jared Farmer	W. W. Norton
Finalist:	Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture	Larry D. Gragg	University Press of Kansas

Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:	Jack London: An American Life	Earle Labor	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Finalist:	Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen	Dean Smith with Mike Cox	Texas Tech University Press
Finalist:	In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War	Kathleen P. Chamberlain	University of New Mexico Press

Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:	Papa’s Gold	Ellen Gray Massey	Pen-L
Finalist:	How I Became a Ghost	Tim Tingle	The RoadRunner Press
Finalist:	Summer of the Star	Johnny D. Boggs	Five Star Publishing

Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	Eagle of Delight: Portrait of the Plains Indian Girl in the White House	Jean A. Lukesh	Field Mouse Productions
Finalist:	Magnificent Sam: The Amazing Adventures of Sam Houston	Laurie Cockerell	Kinderfable
Finalist:	Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party	Nathan Hale	Amulet

Storyteller

Winner:	Yosemite’s Songster: One Coyote’s Story	Ginger Wadsworth and Daniel San Souci	Yosemite Conservancy
Finalist:	May Finds Her Way	Betty Selakovich Casey	The Roadrunner Press
Finalist:	Standing in for Lincoln Green	David Mackintosh	Abrams Books for Young Readers

Best Western Short Fiction

Winner:	“Cabin Fever”	Brett Cogburn	High Hill Press
Finalist:	“Chouteau’s Crossing”	McKendree Long	High Hill Press
Finalist:	“Gethsemane”	Clay Reynolds	Lamar University Press

Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“The Other James Brother”	Mark Lee Gardner	Wild West
Finalist:	“Donner Party Cannibalism: Did They or Didn’t They?”	Kristin Johnson	Wild West
Finalist:	“Celebrating ‘Progress?’: Art, Ambivalence, and Vanessa Helder’s Grand Coulee Suite”	Victoria Grieve	Western Historical Quarterly

Best Western Poem

Winner:	“Chamise”	Amy Glynn Greacen	Orion
Finalist:	“Coyanosa”	Larry D. Thomas	Southwestern American Literature
Finalist:	“Skulls”	Dixon Hearne	Laughing Cactus Press

Best Western Song

Winner:	“Still There”	Waddie Mitchell and Juni Fisher	Red Geetar Music
Finalist:	“Race with the Wind”	Jim Jones and Bruce Huntington	East Mountain Music
Finalist:	“Old Poly Rope”	Trinity Seely	Bucket Bail Press

Best Western Documentary Script

Winner:

Indian Relay

M. Smoker

Dye Works Film

2013

Best Western Short Novel

Winner:	Tucker’s Reckoning	Matthew Mayo	New American Library
Finalist:	Lonesome Animals	Bruce Holbert	Counterpoint Press
Finalist:	City of Rocks	Michael Zimmer	Five Star Publishing

Best Western Long Novel

Winner:	With Blood in Their Eyes	Thomas Cobb	University of Arizona Press
Finalist:	The Orchardist	Amandan Coplin	HarperCollins
Finalist:	Country of the Bad Wolfes	James Carlos Blake	Cinco Puntos Press

Best Original Mass Market Paperback

Winner:	The Coyote Tracker	Larry Sweazy	Berkley
Finalist:	Redemption: Hunters	James Reasoner	Berkley
Finalist:	The Secret of Lodestar	Tim Champlin	Berkley

Best First Novel

Winner:	Panhandle	Brett Cogburn	Pinnacle
Finalist:	Wide Open	Larry Bjornson	Penguin Group/AWOC
Finalist:	The Orchardist	Amanda Coplin	HarperCollins

Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:	Geronimo	Robert M. Utley	Yale University Press
Finalist:	Ho! For the Black Hills: Captain Jack Crawford Reports the Black Hills Gold Rush and Great Sioux War	Paul L. Hedren	South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Finalist:	“That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend	Catherine Holder Spude	University of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:	With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852	Will Bagley	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1954-1868	Doreen Chaky	The Arthur H. Clark Company
Finalist:	Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry	Joan Nabseth Stevenson	University of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:	Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, A Mojave Hermit and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History	Deanne Stillman	Nation Books
Finalist:	Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement	Michael W. Childers	University Press of Kansas
Finalist:	Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West	Ruben Martinez	Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company

Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:	“The Hog Whisperer”	John Mort	Flint Hills Review
Finalist	“The Saint of Pox Island”	Susan K. Salzer	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Finalist:	“The Day Delgado Rode In”	Lori Van Pelt	Outlaws and Lawmen/La Frontera Publishing

Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“Marathoner Louis Tewanima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908-1912”	Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert	Western Historical Quarterly
Finalist:	“Libbie Custer: ‘A Wounded Thing Must Hide'”	Paul Andrew Hutton	Wild West
Finalist	“‘Wearing the Hempen Neck-Tie’: Lynching in Nebraska 1858-1919”	James E. Potter	Nebraska History

Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:	Wide Open	Larry Bjornson	Penguin Group
Finalist:	Blooming Prairie	Candace Simar	North Star Press of St. Cloud
Finalist:	And There I’ll Be A Soldier	Johnny D. Boggs	Five Star Publishing/Gale

Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days	Nancy Plain	University of Nebraska Press
Finalist:	The Great Bicycle Experiment: The Army’s Historic Black Bicycle Corps, 1896-97	Kay Moore	Mountain Press Publishing Company
Finalist:	Strike!: Mother Jones & the Colorado Coal Field War	Lois Ruby	Filter Press

Storyteller Award

Winner:	Pecos Bill Invents the Ten-Gallon Hat	Kevin Strauss, illustrated by David Harrington	Pelican Publishing
Finalist:	The Adventures of Buffalo Joe and The Blackbird With the Broken Wing	Jamie Anne Blake	Homestead Publishing
Finalist:	Big Buckaroo and Moose, The Cow Dog	Rachelle “Rocky” Gibbons, illustrated by Jason Hutton	Tate Publishing

Best Western Drama Script (Fiction)

Winner:	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	The Weinstein Company
Finalist:	Hatfields & McCoys	Bill Kerby, Ted Mann, Ronald Parker	Thinkfactory Media/History Channel
Finalist:	Justified	Graham Yost, Elmore Leonard, Dave Andron, Fred Golan, Benjamin Cavell, Taylor Elmore, Jon Worley, Nichelle D. Tramble, Ryan Farley, Ingrid Escajeda, V.J. Boyd	FX Network

Best Western Documentary Script (Nonfiction)

Winner:	The Dust Bowl	Dayton Duncan	Florentine Films
Finalist:	No Winner

Best Western Poem

Winner:	“Johnny Ringo”	Red Shuttleworth	Riverhouse
Finalist:	“Night Singer, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico”	Steve Fieffenbacher	Wordcraft of Oregon
Finalist:	“Nat Maringo”	Robert Brown	Brave New Genre Inc.

Best Western Audiobook

Winner:	Ring of Fire	Cotton Smith	Books In Motion
Finalist:	Trouble in Texas	Tom Nichols	Books in Motion

Best Western Song

Winner:	“Texas Is Burnin'”	Jim Jones	Jim Jones Music
Winner:	“Any Name Will Do”	Mary Kaye	Knaphus Enterprises
Finalist:	“The Last Real Cowboy in Old Santa Fe”	Jerry Faires	Silversmith Records

2012

Best Western Short Novel

Winner:	Legacy of a Lawman	Johnny D. Boggs	Five Star Publishing
Finalist:	Lime Creek	Joe Henry	Random House
Finalist:	Killed by Indians 1871	Alan C. Huffines	Texas Wesleyan University Press

Best Western Long Novel

Winner:	Remember Ben Clayton	Stephen Harrigan	Alfred A. Knopf
Finalist:	Rode	Thomas Fox Averill	University of New Mexico Press
Finalist:	Feast Day of Fools	James Lee Burke	Simon & Schuster

Best Original Mass Market Paperback

Winner:	West Texas Kill	Johnny D. Boggs	Pinnacle Books/Kensington
Finalist:	The Long Hunt	Cameron Judd	Signet/Penguin
Finalist:	Between Hell and Texas	Dusty Richards	Pinnacle Books/Kensington

Best First Novel

Winner:	Double Crossing	Meg Mims	Astraea Press
Finalist:	“Unbridled”	Tammy Hinton	Roots & Branches/AWOC
Finalist:	“Whispers of the Greybull”	Stephen B. Smart	High Mule Publishing

Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:	George Crook	Paul Magid	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek	Louis Kraft	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Will Rogers: A Political Life	Richard D. White	Texas Tech University Press

Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:	The Mormon Rebellion	David L. Bigler and Will Bagley	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	After Custer	Paul L. Hedren	Univ. of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Railroaded	Richard White	W. W. Norton & Company

Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:	The Bitteroot and MR. Brandborg	Frederick H. Swanson	University of Utah Press
Finalist:	Navajos Wear Nikes	Jim Kristofic	University of New Mexico Press
Finalist:	Line in the Sand	Rachel St. John	Princeton University Press

Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:	“The Death of Delgado”	Rod Miller	Western Fictioneers
Winner:	“The Deacon’s Horse”	Clay Reynolds	Ink Brush Press
Finalist:	“The Great Divide”	Shann Ray	Graywolf Press

Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“The Alamo, Well Remembered”	Paul Andrew Hutton	Wild West Magazine
Finalist:	“That No Thorn Will Pierce Our Friendship”	John R. Wunder	Western Historical Quarterly
Finalist	“The Wild West’s Premier Mythmaker”	Mark Dworkin	Wild West Magazine

Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:	Birdie	Candace Simar	North Star Press of St. Cloud
Finalist:	South by Southwest	Johnny D. Boggs	Five Star Publishing/Gale
Finalist:	Rescue in Poverty Gulch	Nancy Oswald	Filter Press

Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	Migrant Mother	Don Nardo	Compass Point Books/Capstone
Finalist:	Wolves in Blue	Jean A. Lukesh	Field Mouse Productions
Finalist:	How the West Was Drawn	Linda L. Osmundson	Pelican Publishing

Storyteller Award

Winner:	Tornado Slim and the Magic Cowboy Hat	Bryan Langdo	Marshall Cavendish
Finalist:	The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town	Mary Casanova	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Finalist:	Henrietta King	Mary Dodson Wade	Bright Sky Press

Best Western Drama Script (Fiction)

Winner:	Rango	John Logan	Nickelodeon Movies
Winner:	Meek’s Cutoff	Jonathan Raymond
Finalist:	Blackthorn	Miguel Barros	Rogue Pictures

Best Western Documentary Script (Nonfiction)

Winner:	Buck	Cindy Meehl, Director, Julie Goldman, Producer	Cedar Creek Productions
Finalist:	No Winner

 Best Western Poem

Winner:	“Tabula Rasa”	Rod Miller	Port Yonder Press
Finalist:	“What Harvest Poems on the Siege & Battle of the Alamo”	Floyd Collins	Somondoco Press
Finalist:	“The Red, Candle-lit Darkness	Larry D. Thomas	El Grito del Lobo Press

Best Western Audiobook

Winner:	No Winner
Finalist:	No Winner

Best Western Song

Winner:	“Morning Star Moon”	Jon Chandler	Western Dog Publishing
Finalist:	“Raven on the Wind”	Wylie Gustafson	Two Medicine Music
Finalist:	“The Cowboy”	Bob Thomas	Easy Bob Music

2011

Best Western Short Novel

Winner:	Snowbound	Richard S. Wheeler	Tom Doherty Associates
Finalist:	Wild Penance	Sandi Ault	Penguin/Berkley
Finalist:	Roy and Lillie	Loren D. Estleman	Tom Doherty Associate

Best Western Long Novel

Winner:	Last Train from Cuernavaca	Lucia St. Clair Robson	Tom Doherty Associates
Finalist:	Gold Under Ice	Carol Buchanan	Missouri Breaks Press
Finalist:	Going Through Ghosts	Mary Sojourner	University of Nevada Press

Best Original Mass Market Paperback

Winner:	Damnation Road	Max McCoy	Kensington
Finalist:	Wulf’s Tracks	Dusty Richards	Penguin/Berkley
Finalist:	The Lawman: Avenging Angel	Lyle Brandt (Mike Newton)	Penguin/Berkley

Best First Novel

Winner:	Galveston	Nick Pizolatto	Simon & Schuster
Finalist:	A Congregation of Jackals	S. Craig Zahler	Dorchester Publishing
Finalist:	‘Nada	Daniel Boyd	Casperian Books

Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:	Wolf: The Lives of Jack London	James Haley	Basic Books
Finalist:	Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs	David Cruise & Allison Griffiths	Simon & Schuster
Finalist:	Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez	John Boessenecker	Univ. of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:	The Killing of Crazy Horse	Thomas Powers	Alfred A. Knopf
Finalist:	Beyond Bear’s Paw	Jerome A. Greene	Univ. of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	So Rugged and Mountainous	Will Bagley	Univ. of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:	The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America	Lawrence Culver	Oxford University Press
Finalist:	Goodbye Wives and Daughters	Susan Kushner Resnick	University of Nebraska Press
Finalist:	Arizona’s Little Hollywood: Sedona and Northern Arizona’s Forgotten Film History, 1923-1973	Joe McNeill	Northedge and Sons

Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:	“Bonnie and Clyde in the Backyard”	K.L. Cook	Glimmer Train
Finalist:	“Scorpion Ranch“	T. C. Boyle	Orion Magazine
Finalist:	“Gunfighter’s Lament“	Ellen Recknor	Kensington

Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“The N Bar N Ranch: A Legend of the Open-Range Cattle Industry, 1885-99“	Lee Niedringhaus	Montana: The Magazine of Western History
Finalist:	“Horse Trading in the Early West“	Dan Flores	Wild West Magazine / Weider History Group
Finalist	“Your Nations Shall Be Exterminated“	Don Cutler	MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:	Moon Over Manifest	Clare Vanderpool	Random House Children’s Books (Delacorte)
Finalist:	Last Summer of the Death Warriors	Francisco X. Stork	Scholastic, Inc.
Finalist:	Crosswire	Dotti Enderle	Boyds Mills Press (Calkins Creek)

Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	Buffalo Bill Cody	Ronald A. Reis	Chelsea House
Finalist:	Tecumseh: Shooting Star of the Shawnee	Dwight Jon Zimmerman	Sterling Publishing
Finalist:	Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story	S.D. Nelson	Abrams Books

Storyteller Award

Winner:	A Night on the Range	Aaron Frisch, author—Chris Sheban, illustrator	Creative Editions
Finalist:	Charlie Russell, Tale-Telling Artist	Lois V. Harris, author—Charles Russell, illustrator	Pelican Publishing Company
Finalist:	Arbor Day Square	Kathryn O. Galbraith, author—Cyd Moore, illustrator	Peachtree Publishers

Best Western Drama

Winner:	Temple Grandin	Christopher Monger & William Merritt Johnson	HBO Films
Winner:	True Grit	Joel & Ethan Coen	Paramount Pictures
Finalist:	Justified	Graham Yost	Sony Pictures Television & FX Productions

Best Western Documentary

Winner:	American Experience: Wyatt Earp	Rob Rapley	PBS
Finalist:	No Winner

Best Western Poem

Winner:	“Roadside Attractions”	Red Shuttleworth	The Basement
Finalist:	“Holy Warriors“	Conger Beasley, Jr.	Dodo Bird Publishing
Finalist:	“No More Corridos“	John Duncklee	Rope and Wire

Best Western Audiobook

Winner:	Secret of Two Hawks	Kirby Jonas	Books in Motion
Finalist:	Jackson Hole Journey	Linda Jacobs	Books in Motion
Finalist:	Song of Freedom	Tim Simmons	Books in Motion

Best Western Song

Winner:	“Heart of a Bucking Horse”	Tom Russell & Paul Zarzyski	End of the Trail Music, Fontera Music (ASCAP), Bucking Horse Moon (ASCAP)
Finalist:	“Show Me Mister“	Susan D. Matley	CimSlim Music
Finalist:	“King“	Jim Jones & Joyce Jones	East Mountain Music

2010

Best Western Short Novel

Winner:	Far Bright Star	Robert Olmstead	Algonquin
Finalist:	Wild Sorrow	Sandi Ault	Berkley Prime Crime
Finalist:	Spoon	Robert Greer	Fulcrum

Best Western Long Novel

Winner:	Echoes of Glory	Robert Flynn	TCU Press
Finalist:	One-Eyed Jacks	Bob Cherry	Cicada Wing
Finalist:	Tenderfoot	Mary E. Trimble	Treble Heart

Best Original Mass Market Paperback

Winner:	Stranger in Thunder Basin	John D. Nesbitt	Dorchester Publishing
Finalist:	Hanging Judge	Lyle Brandt	Penguin/Berkley
Finalist:	A Cold Place in Hell	William Blinn	Pinnacle/Kensington

Best First Novel

Winner:		No Winner
Finalist:		No Winner

Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:	Peg Leg	David C. Humphrey	Texas State Historical Association
Finalist:	As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart	Clyde Miller & Carol O’Connor	Oxford University Press
Finalist:	Mormon Convert/Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West	Polly Aird	Arthur H. Clark

Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:	Fort Laramie	Douglas C. McChristian	Arthur H. Clark
Finalist:	Dodge City: The Early Years, 1872-1886	William B. Schillingberg	Arthur H. Clark
Finalist:	Crossing the Plains with Custer	Paul Horsted,Ernest Grafe & Jon Nelson	Golden Valley Press

Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:	The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920	Charles H. Harris, III & Louis R. Sadler	University of New Mexico Press
Finalist:	Borderline Americans: Racial Division and the Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands	Katherine Benton-Cohen	Harvard University Press
Finalist:	The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America	Timothy Egan	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:	“At the End of the Orchard”	John D. Nesbitt	Hardboiled Magazine
Finalist:	“Half a Pig“	Matthew P. Mayo	Express Westerns
Finalist:	“As Is”	J. J. Clark	High Desert Journal

Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“Teddy’s Ride to Recovery”	Roger Di Silvestro	Wild West Magazine/Weider
Finalist:	“Rejoicing in the Beauties of Nature: The Image of the Western Landscape During the Fur Trade”	Kerry Oman	Great Plains Quarterly
Finalist	“These Men Play Real Polo: An Elite Sport in the Cowboy State, 1890-1930”	Michael A. Amundson	Montana: The Magazine of Western History

Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:	Hard Winter	Johnny D. Boggs	Gale/Five Star
Finalist:	The Devil’s Paintbox	Victoria McKernan	Alfred A. Knopf
Finalist:	Journey to Goliad	Melodie Cuate	Texas Tech Press

Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	With One Sky Above Us	Nancy Plain	Mondo Publishing
Finalist:	Arizona: Nations and Arts	Annica Benning	Walnut Canyon Press
Finalist:	Before Columbus	Charles C. Mann	Atheneum/Simon & Schuster

Storyteller Award

Winner:	Finding Susie	Sandra Day O’Connor & Tom Pohrt	Random House Children’s Books
Finalist:	Kick the Cowboy	Joe Gribnau & Adrian Tans	Pelican
Finalist:	Bad News for Outlaws	Vaunda Nelson & R. Gregory Christie	Lerner Publishing

Best Western Drama

Winner:		No Winner
Finalist:		No Winner

Best Western Documentary

Winner:	In Pursuit of a Dream	Candy Moulton	Boston Productions, Inc.
Finalist:	We Shall Remain: Tecumseh’s Vision	Ric Burns	WGBH
Finalist:	Born to Ride	Lyman Hafen	Southern Utah University

Best Western Poem

Winner:	“Bob Dylan Bronc Song”	Paul Zarzyski	Two Medicine
Finalist:	“Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West”	David Memmott	Wordcraft of Oregon
Finalist:	“Glass Mountains”	Larry D. Thomas	Southwestern American Literature

Best Western Audiobook

Winner:	River Thunder	Gary McCarthy	Books in Motion
Finalist:	Mundy’s Law	Monty McCord	Books in Motion
Finalist:	Where a Good Wind Blows	Phil Mills, Jr.	Books in Motion

Best Western Song

Winner:	“Hang-n-Rattle”	Wylie Gustafson & Paul Zarzyski	Two Medicine Music/Bucking Horse Moon Music
Finalist:	“Steamboat”	Steve Moulton	Butch Hause/The Ranger Station
Finalist:	“Pete French”	Daron Little	Self-produced

2009

Best Western Short Novel

Winner:	Another Man’s Moccasins	Craig Johnson	Viking / Penguin
Finalist:	Dreams Beneath Your Feet	Win Blevins	Forge Books / Tom Doherty
Finalist:	Killstraight	Johnny Boggs	Five Star

Best Western Long Novel

Winner:	Shavetail	Thomas Cobb	Scribner
Finalist:	Wolves At Our Door	J.P.S. Brown	University of New Mexico Press
Finalist:	The Long Knives are Crying	Joseph M. Marshall III	Fulcrum Publishing

Best Original Mass Market Paperback

Winner:	Trouble at the Redstone	John D. Nesbitt	Dorchester Publishing
Finalist:	The Trespassers	Andrew J. Fenady	Dorchester Publishing
Finalist:	I, Quantrill	Max McCoy	Signet / NAL

Best First Novel

Winner:	God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana	Carol A. Buchanan	Book Surge, LLC
Finalist:	Undiscovered Country	Lin Enger	Little, Brown & Company
Finalist:	The Buffalo Rock	Bob Faulkner	Stand Up America, USA

Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:	Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America	Meredith Mason Brown	Louisiana State University Press
Finalist:	A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir	Donald Worster	Oxford University Press
Finalist:	Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith	Margot Kahn	University of Oklahoma Press

Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:	Hunting The American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit, and Sport, 1800-1900	Richard C. Rattenbury	Boone and Crockett Club
Finalist:	Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941	David Dary	Alfred A. Knopf
Finalist:	A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn -The Last Great Battle of the American West	James Donovan	Little, Brown & Company

 Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:	Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School—Basketball Champions of the World	Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876	Jerome A. Greene	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak	David Schweidel and Robert Boswell	Cinco Puntos Press

Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:	“Cornflower Blue”	Susan K. Salzer	Untamed Ink, Lindenwood University
Finalist:	“Mickey Free: The Graphic Novel”	Bob Boze Bell and Paul Andrew Hutton	True West Magazine
Finalist:	“Morning War”	Cotton Smith	The Way of the West, Dorchester

Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“Owen Wister’s Paladin of the Plains: The Virginian as a Cultural Hero”	David A. Smith	South Dakota History, South Dakota State Historical Society
Finalist:	“More Real than the Indians Themselves: The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States”	Clyde Ellis	Montana The Magazine of Western History
Finalist	“Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade & the Early American West, 1775-1825”	Dan Flores	Montana The Magazine of Western History

Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:	I am Apache	Tanya Landman	Candlewick Press
Finalist:	The Gold Rush Kid	Mary Waldorf	Clarion Books
Finalist:	Her Enemies, Blue and Gray	Ellen Gray Massey	Goldminds Publishing

Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	The Trial of Standing Bear	Frank Keating, Mike Wimmer (artist)	Oklahoma Heritage Association
Finalist:	A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero	Gina Capaldi	Lerner Publishing
Finalist:	The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West	Sid Fleischman	Harper Collins Children’s Books

Storyteller Award

Winner:	The Wheat Doll	Alison L. Randall and Bill Farnsworth (artist)	Peachtree Publishers
Finalist:	Daniel Boone’s Great Escape	Michael P. Spradlin, Ard Hoyt (artist)	Walker & Company
Finalist:	Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show	Susan Stevens Crummel, Dorothy Donohue (artist)	Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books

Best Western Drama

Winner:		No Winner
Finalist:		No Winner

Best Western Documentary

Winner:	Kit Carson	Michelle Ferrari	American Experience, WGBH
Finalist:	Buffalo Bill	Rob Rapley	American Experience, WGBH
Finalist:	A Ballad of the West	Bobby Bridger	Bridger Productions, White Coyote Music

Best Western Poem

Winner:	“The Only Good Indian”	Linda Hussa	The Black Rock Press
Finalist:	“Sometimes, in the Lucias”	Janice Gilbertson	BK Publications
Finalist:	“Steers in Summer, Lowing”	Larry D. Thomas	Rattle

Best Western Audiobook

Winner:	Vendetta Canyon	Stan Lynde	Books in Motion
Finalist:	Grasshoppers in Summer	Paul Schmelzer Writing as Paul Colt	Books in Motion
Finalist:	Letter of the Law	C.K. Crigger	Books in Motion

Best Western Song

Winner:	“Linwood”	Jon Chandler	Western Dog Publishing BMI
Finalist:	“Soy Cayuse Cimarron”	Mike Blakely	Swing Rider Records
Finalist:	“Apache Kid”	Royal Wade Kimes	Blue Whistler Music

2008

• Best Western Short Novel: Tallgrass By Sandra Dallas, St. Martin’s Press
• Best Western Long Novel: The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle, Scribner
• Best Original Mass Market Paperback: Hellfire Canyon By Max McCoy, Kensington/Pinnacle Books
• Best First Novel: The Night Birds By Thomas Maltman, Soho Press
• Best Western Nonfiction Biography: Gall: Lakota War ChiefBy Robert W. Larson, Univ. of Oklahoma Press
• Best Western Nonfiction Historical: Creating Minnesota By Annette Atkins, MN Historical Society Press
• Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary: Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas RangersBy Robert M. Utley, Oxford University Press
• Best Western Short Fiction Story: “Crucifixion River” (Crucifixion River) By Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Five Star
• Best Western Short Nonfiction: “Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845” By Joseph B. Herring, Kansas History (Winter 2007)
• Best Western Juvenile Fiction: Doubtful Cañon By Johnny D. Boggs, Five Star
• Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction: Sagebrush and Paintbrush: The Story of Charlie Russell, The Cowboy Artist By Nancy Plain, Mondo Publishing
• Storyteller Award: No Award Given
• Best Western Drama: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford By Andrew Dominik, Warner Bros. Pictures
• Best Western Documentary: Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit By Jayne McKay & Daniel Dixon, Cloud World LLC
• Best Western Poem: “El Corrido de Antonio Beltran” from Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West By John Duncklee, Ghost Road Press
• Best Western Audiobook: No Award Given
• Best Western Song: “The Last Wild White Buffalo” By Mike Blakely, Quien Sabe Music/Swing Rider Records

2007

• Best Western Long Novel: The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook, Viking/Penguin Publishing
• Best Western Short Novel: The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman, Harper Collins Publishers
• Best Original Paperback Novel: The Horse Creek Incident by Dusty Richards, Jove Books
• Best First Novel: Broken Trail by Alan Geoffrion, Fulcrum Publishing
• Best Western Nonfiction – Historical: Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides, Doubleday
• Best Western Nonfiction – Contemporary: Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics and the Montana Press, 1889-1959 by Dennis L. Swibold, Montana Historical Society Press
• Best Western Nonfiction – Biography: Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life by Kingsley M. Bray, University of Oklahoma Press
• Best Western Short Fiction: “Comanche Moon” by Dusty Richards, Amazon Shorts/Amazon.com
• Best Western Short Nonfiction: “Forced into the Rockies: The Rise of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Era” by Kerry Oman, Annals of Wyoming
• Best Western Juvenile Fiction: Geronimo by Joseph Bruchac, Scholastic Press
• Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction: Bleeding Kansas and the Violent Clash Over Slavery in the Heartland by Jeff  C.Young, Enslow Publishers
• Best Western Drama Script (Fiction): Broken Trail by Alan Geoffrion, AMC
• Best Western Documentary Script (Nonfiction): Gold Rush by Michelle Ferrari, American Experience WGBH/PBS
• Storyteller: Tatanka and the Lakota People by Donald F. Montileaux, South Dakota State Historical Society Press
• Poetry: Across the High Divide by Laurie Wagner Buyer, Ghost Road Press
• Audiobook: Healing Shine by Michael Johnson, Season of Harvest

2006

•  Novel of the West: High Country: A Novelby Willard Wyman, University of Oklahoma Press
• Best First Novel: High Country: A Novelby Willard Wyman, University of Oklahoma Press
• Western Novel: Tie for Spur Winner: Camp Ford: A Western Storyby Johnny D. Boggs, Five Star Publishing and The Undertaker’s Wife  by Loren D. Estleman, Forge Books
• Short Nonfiction: “The Contradictory Legacies of Buffalo Bill Cody’s First Scalp for Custer” by Paul L. Hedren, Montana The Magazine of Western History
• Original Paperback Novel: Dakotaby Matt Braun, St Martin’s Press
• Short Fiction: “Pecker’s Revenge” (in Pecker’s Revenge and Other Stories from the Frontier’s Edge)by Lori Van Pelt, University of New Mexico Press
• Documentary Script: “Mountain Massacre” written by Paul Hutton, Bill Kurtis and Jamie Schenk Kurtis Productions, The History Channel
• Drama Script: Tie for Spur Winner: “Into The West: Hell on Wheels” (Episode IV) written by Kirk Ellis, DreamWorks Television for TNT and “Miracle at Sage Creek” written by Thadd Turner, Talmarc Productions
• Contemporary Nonfiction: Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923by David Dorado Romo, Cinco Puntos Press
• Historical Nonfiction: Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and The Wild West Showby Louis S. Warren, Alfred A. Knopf
• Biography: Chief Joseph: Guardian of the Peopleby Candy Moulton, Forge Books
• Storyteller: Klondike Goldby Alice Provensen, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
• Juvenile Nonfiction: The First Americans: The Story of Where They Came From and Who They Became by Anthony Aveni, Scholastic Nonfiction
• Juvenile Fiction:Black Storm Comin’ by Diane Lee Wilson, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
• Poetry: Voice of the Borderlands by Drum Hadley, Rio Nuevo Publishers

2005

• Best Western Novel: Buy the Chief a Cadillac by Rick Steber, Bonanza Publishing
• Best Novel Of The West: People of the Ravenby Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, Forge Books
• Best Original Mass Market Paperback Novel: Vengeance Valleyby Richard S. Wheeler, Pinnacle Books (Kensington)
• Best First Novel: Field of Honorby D. L. Birchfield, University of Oklahoma Press
• Best Western Nonfiction – Biography: Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace but Found Warby Thom Hatch, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Best Western Nonfiction – Historical: Beasts of the Fieldby Richard Steven Street, Stanford University Press
• Best Western Nonfiction – Contemporary: The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolutionby Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler, University of New Mexico Press
• Best Western Short Fiction: “The Promotion” (from the anthology Texas Rangers) by Larry D. Sweazy, Berkley Publishing
• Best Western Short Nonfiction: “Blood For Oil” (from the collectionJust the Facts) by Jim Doherty, Deadly Serious Press
• Best Western Juvenile Fiction: Fire In The Hole!By Mary Cronk Farrell, Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin)
• Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction:Rattlesnake Mesa…Stories From A Native American ChildhoodbyEdnah New Rider Weber, Lee & Low Books
• Best Western Drama Script: Hidalgoby John Fusco, Touchstone Pictures/Disney
• Best Western Documentary Script: Wild West Tech: Deadwood Tech by Laura Verklan, The History Channel
• Poetry: A Thousand Miles of Starsby Walt McDonald, Texas Tech University Press
• Storyteller: Apples to Oregonby Deborah Hopkinson, Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, Simon and Schuster Children’s Books

2004

• Best Western Novel: I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company By Brian Hall (Viking)
• Novel of the West: So Wild A Dream by Win Blevins (Forge)
• Best First Novel: The Sergeant’s Lady By Miles Hood Swarthout (Forge).
• Best Drama Script: And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself by the Mark Gordon Company and City Entertainment for HBO.
• Storyteller Award (illustrated children’s book): The Star People: A Lakota Story written and illustrated by S.D. Nelson (Abrams).
• Original Paperback Novel: Plain Language by Barbara Wright (Touchstone).
• Nonfiction Biography: On A Silver Desert: The Life of Ernest Haycox by Ernest Haycox Jr. (University of Oklahoma Press).
• Nonfiction Contemporary: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit (Viking).
• Nonfiction Historical: One Vast Winter Count: the Native American West before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway (University of Nebraska Press).
• Short Fiction: “Second Coming” by Andrew Geyer in Whispers in Dust and Bone (Texas Tech University Press).
• Short Nonfiction: “Reconstructing Race” by Elliott West (Western Historical Quarterly, Spring 2003).
• Juvenile Fiction: In The Eye of the Storm: The Adventures of Young Buffalo Bill by E. Cody Kimmel (Harper Collins).
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers by Ginger Wadsworth (Clarion Books).
• Documentary: Carson and Cody: The Hunter Heroes by Paul Andrew Hutton (Gary L. Foreman/Native Sun Productions, the History Channel).
• Poetry: Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat by Paul Zarzyski (Oreana Books).

2003

• Best Western Novel: The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas (St. Martin’s Press)
• Best Original Paperback Novel: Oblivion’s Altar: A Novel of Courage by David Marion Wilkinson (New American Library)
• Best Novel of the West: Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling (Blue Hen)
• Nonfiction Historical: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows By Will Bagley (University of Oklahoma Press)
• Nonfiction Contemporary: Diné: A History of the Navajos By Peter Iverson (University of New Mexico Press)
• Nonfiction Biography: Sam Houston By James L. Haley (University of Oklahoma Press)
• Best Western Documentary Script: Daniel Levitt’s Custer’s Last Stand (Pinball Productions for Unsolved History, the Discovery Channel)
• Best Western Short Fiction: Jimbo Brewer’s “The Old Man,” in Hot Biscuits: Eighteen Stories by Women and Men of the Ranching West (University of New Mexico Press).
• Best Western Short Nonfiction: Kerry R. Oman’s “Winter in the Rockies: Winter Quarters of the Mountain Men,” in Montana: The Magazine of Western History.
• Best Western Juvenile Fiction: The Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold (Harcourt Inc.).
• Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction: Raising La Belle by Mark G. Mitchell (Eakin Press).

2002

• Best Western Novel: The Way of the Coyote by Elmer Kelton, Forge Books
• Best Novel of the West: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mintby Brady Udall, W.W. Norton & Company
• Original Western Paperback: Drum’s Ring by Richard S. Wheeler, NAL
• Medicine Pipe Bearer: (best first novel) Corps of Discovery by Jeffrey W. Tenney, iUniverse
• Nonfiction: Historical: Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars by Robert Remini, Viking Books
• Nonfiction: Contemporary: Bone Wars by Tom Rea, University of Pittsburgh Press
• Nonfiction: Biography: American Character by Mark Thompson, Arcade Publishing
• Juvenile Fiction: Rockbuster by Gloria Skurzynski, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
• Juvenile Nonfiction: In The Days of the Vaqueros by Russell Freedman, Clarion Books
• Short Fiction: “A Piano at Dead Man’s Crossing” from American West by Johnny D. Boggs, Forge Books
• Short Nonfiction: “Killer of Pain’s Transcontinental Journey” by Dale L. Walker, Wild West Primedia History Group
• Best Western Documentary Script: Boone and Crockett: The Hunter Heroes by Paul Andrew Hutton with Dan Gagliasso (Gary L. Foreman, Native Sun Productions)
• Story Teller Award: (for best illustrated children’s literature) The Legend of Strap Buckner by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge and Andrew Glass, Holiday House
• Poetry: Blood Sister, I Am To These Fields by Linda Hussa, Black Rock Press

2001

• Western Novel: Summer of Pearls by Mike Blakely (Forge Books)
• Best Novel of the West: The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Best Original Paperback: Bound for the Promise Land by Troy D. Smith
• Medicine Pipe Bearer winner for Best First Novel: The Chivalry of Crime by Desmond Barry
• Best Western Nonfiction – Contemporary: What You See in Clear Water by Geoffrey O’Gara
• Best Western Nonfiction – Biography: A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell.
• Best Western Nonfiction – Historical: Pacific Destiny by Dale Walker
• Best Western Short Fiction: “All or Nothing” from Tales of the American Westby Gary Svee
• Best Western Short Nonfiction: “Death Song” by H. W. Paige
• Best Western Juvenile Fiction: The Midnight Train Home by Erika Tamar
• Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction: Stories of Young Pioneers in Their Own Words by Violet T. Kimball
• The Storyteller Award: Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella by Susan Lowell and Jane Manning
• Poetry: Western Settings by Red Shuttleworth

2000

• Western Novel: Masterson by Richard S. Wheeler (Forge Books)
• Novel of the West: Prophet Annie by Ellen Recknor (Avon Books)
• Paperback Original: Mine Work by Jim Davidson (Utah State University Press)
• Nonfiction-Contemporary: The Real Wild West by Michael Wallis (St. Martin’s Press)
• Nonfiction-Biography: Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958 by Felix D. Almaraz, Jr. (Texas A&M University Press)
• Juvenile Fiction: Wrango by Brian Burks (Harcourt Brace & Co.)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: The Wild Colorado by Richard Maurer (Crown Publishers)
• Short Fiction: “Opening Day” by David Marion Wilkinson (ReadWest Online Magazine)
• Short Nonfiction: “Golden Dreams” by Elliott West (Montana Historical Society)
• Drama Script: “Purgatory” Screenplay by Gordon Dawson (Turner Network Television)
• Documentary Script: “Annie Oakly: Crackshot in Petticoats” Screenplay by Arthur Drooker
• Storyteller: The Prairie Train by Antoine O’Flatharta, illustrated by Eric Rohmann (Crown Publishers)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Mine Work by Jim Davidson (Utah State University Press)

1999

• Western Novel: Journey of the Dead by Loren D. Estleman (Forge Books)
• Novel of the West: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Paperback Original: Dark Trail by Hiram King (Leisure Books)
• Nonfiction-Contemporary: Devil’s Bargains: Tourism on the Twentieth-Century American West by Hal K. Rothman (University Press of Kansas)
• Nonfiction-Biography: Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne by Ronald L. Davis (University of Oklahoma Press)
• Juvenile Fiction: Petey by Ben Mikaelson (Hyperion Books for Children)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Cowboy With a Camera: Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer by Don Worcester (Amon Carter Museum)
• Short Fiction: “Secrets of the Lost Cannon” by Allen P. Bristow (Acorn)
• Short Nonfiction: “A South Dakota Rendezvous” by Carlton L. Bonilla (South Dakota History)
• Drama Script: The Hi-Lo CountryScreenplay by Walon Green (Grammercy Pictures)
• Documentary Script: Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest Screenplay by Gary L. Foreman (Arts & Entertainment/History Channel)
• Storyteller: Slim & Miss Prim by Robert Kinerk; Illustrator Jim Harris (Rising Moon)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: The Spanish Peaks by Jon Chandler (Rodgers & Nelson Publishing)

1998

• Western Novel: The Kiowa Verdict by Cynthia Haseloff (Five Star)
• Novel of the West: Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
• Paperback Original: Leaving Missouri by Ellen Recknor (Berkley)
• Nonfiction-Historical: El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860, by John Miller Morris, Texas State Historical Society
• Nonfiction-Contemporary: Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas (Simon & Schuster)
• Nonfiction-Biography: Death’s Deceiverby Lynn Bridgers (U of New Mexico Press)
• Juvenile Fiction: Danger Along the Ohio by Patricia Willis (Clarion Books)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Rattlesnake Dance by Jennifer Owings Dewey (Boyds Mills Press)
• Short Fiction: “Sue Ellen Learns to Dance” by Judy Alter (Browder Springs Publishing)
• Short Nonfiction: “Ranchers form Radical Center to Protect Wide-Open Spaces” by Jake Page (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Drama Script: Buffalo Soldiers by Frank Military and Susan Rinehart (TNT)
• Documentary Script: (tie) “George Armstrong Custer” by Arthur Drooker (Drooker Productions) and “Lewis & Clark” by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan (Florentine Films)
• Storyteller: Bootmaker and the Elves, story by Susan Lowell, illustrated by Tom Curry (Orchard Books)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Keepers of theEarth by LaVerne Harrell Clark (Cinco Puntos Press)

1997

For promotional purposes, the WWA Executive Board in 1997 voted to re-designate the Spur Awards to reflect the year the award is presented rather than the year the work was published.

1996

• Western Novel: Blood of Texas by Preston Lewis writing as Will Camp (HarperCollins)
• Novel of the West: Sierra by Richard S. Wheeler (Forge Books)
• Paperback Original: Potter’s Fields by Frank Roderus (Bantam)
• Nonfiction-Historical: Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose (Simon & Schuster)
• Nonfiction-Contemporary: New Westers:The West in Contemporary AmericanCulture by Michael L. Johnson (U Press of Kansas)
• Nonfiction-Biography: John Wesley Hardin:Dark Angel of Texas by Leon C. Metz (Mangan Books)
• Juvenile Fiction: Far North by Will Hobbs (William Morrow & Co.)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: The Life and Death Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
• Short Fiction: “The Alchemist” by Loren D. Estleman (Durkin Hayes Publishing, Ltd.)
• Short Nonfiction: “Letters from the Field: John Sylvanus Loud and the Pine Ridge Campaign of 1880-9 1” by Fred Erisman and Patricia L. Erisman (South Dakota History)
• Storyteller: The Worry Stone, story by Marianna Dengler, illustrations by Sibyl Graber Gerig (Northland Publishing)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Death of aHealing Woman by Allana Martin (St. Martin’s)

1995

• Western Novel: The Dark Island by Robert J. Conley (Bantam)
• Novel of the West: Stone Song: A Novel ofthe Life of Crazy Horse by Win Blevins (Forge Books)
• Paperback Original: Thunder in the Valley by Jim R. Woolard (Berkley)
• Nonfiction-Historical: Seeking Pleasure inthe Old West by David Dary (Alfred Knopf)
• Nonfiction-Contemporary: We Are A PeopleIn This World by Conger Beasley Jr., (U of Arkansas Press)
• Nonfiction-Biography: General M. G. Vallejoand the Advent of the Americans: ABiography by Alan Rosenus (U of New Mexico Press)
• Juvenile Fiction: Indio by Sherry Garland (Harcourt Brace)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Camels for Uncle Sam by Diane Yancey (Hendrick-Long)
• Short Fiction: “Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana?” by Jane Candia Coleman (Louis L’ Amour Western Magazine)
• Short Nonfiction: “Captain Marsh: Master of the Missouri” by Nancy M. Peterson (Wild West Magazine)
• Drama Script: The Avenging Angel by Dennis Nemac (Turner Pictures)
• Documentary Script: Ruby to Paradise and the Legends in Between by Vicki Evans (Dragoon Productions)
• Storyteller Award: Dandelions, story by Eve Bunting, illustrations by Greg Shed (Harcourt Brace)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Thunder inthe Valley by Jim R. Woolard (Berkley)

1994

• Western Novel: St. Agnes’ Stand by Tom Eidson (Berkley)
• Novel of the West: The Far Canyon by Elmer Kelton (Bantam)
• Paperback Original: Survival by Robert Vaughan writing as K.C. McKenna (Berkley)
• Nonfiction-Historical: Precious Dust by Paula Mitchell Marks (William Morrow)
• Nonfiction-Contemporary: Raven’s Exile: ASeason on the Green River by Ellen Meloy (Henry Holt)
• Nonfiction-Biography: Hero of BeecherIsland: Life & Military Career of George A.Forsyth by David Dixon (U of Nebraska Press)
• Juvenile: A Trail of Tears by David Fremon (Silver Burdett Press)
• Short Fiction: “Charity” by Sandra Whiting (Louis L’Amour Western Magazine)
• Short Nonfiction: “Incredible Elfego Baca” by Howard Bryan (Clear Light)
• Drama Script: Wyatt Earp by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan (TIG Productions/Kasdan Pictures)
• Documentary Script: One Hundred Years of Hollywood Westerns by Jack Haley Jr., Phil Savenik and Aubrey Solomon (Jack Haley Jr. Productions)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: St. AgnesStand by Tom Eidson (Berkley)

1993

• Western Novel: Friends by Charles Hackenberry (M. Evans)
• Novel of the West: Empire of Bones by Jeff Long (William Morrow & Co.)
• Paperback Original: The Gila River by Gary McCarthy (Bantam)
• Nonfiction-Historical: The Lance and theShield by Robert M. Utley (Henry Holt & Co.)
• Nonfiction-Contemporary: Rivers in theDesert by Margaret Leslie Davis (HarperCollins)
• Juvenile Fiction: Leaving Eldorado by Joann Mazzio (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Cowboys, Indians and Gunfighters by Albert Martin (Atheneum Books for Children)
• Short Fiction: “Lou” by Jane Candia Coleman (Louis L’Amour Western Magazine)
• Short Nonfiction: “Nellie Cashman” by Suzann Ledbetter (Texas Western Press)
• Cover Art: Packing Iron, William Manns, artist, (Zon International Pub. Co.)
• Motion Picture Script: Sommersby by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, an Aron Milchan Production (Warner Brothers)
• Television Script: Return to LonesomeDove, teleplay by John Wilder, dePasse Entertainment and R.H.I. Entertainment (CBS)
• Television Documentary: The Hunt for Pancho Villa by Paul Espinosa, Galan Productions (PBS, The American Experience)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: People of theWhistling Waters by Mardi Oakley Medawar (Affiliated Writers of America)

1992

• Western Novel: Nickajack by Robert J. Conley (Doubleday)
• Novel of the West: Slaughter by Elmer Kelton (Doubleday)
• Paperback Original: The Golden Chance by T. V. Olsen (Fawcett Gold Medal)
• Nonfiction: Let Me Be Free by David Lavender (HarperCollins)
• Juvenile Fiction: The Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen (Delacorte)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Children of the Dust Bowlby Jerry Stanley (Crown Publishers)
• Short Fiction: “The Face” by Ed Gorman, The Best Western Stories of Ed Gorman (Swallow Press, Ohio State Univ.)
• Short Nonfiction: “Bluster’s Last Stand” by Preston Lewis (True West)
• Cover Art: `Autumn in the West,” photograph by John MacMurry (Persimmon Hill)
• Movie Script: Unforgiven by David Webb Peoples
• Television Script: Keep the Change by John Miglis
• Documentary Script: (tie) Buffalo Bill and His Wild West by Robert Kirk and Last Stand at Little Bighorn by Paul Stekler and James Welch
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: John Stone and the Choctaw Kid by Wayne Davis (M. Evans)

1991

• Western Novel: Journal of the Gun Yearsby Richard Matheson (M. Evans)
• Novel of the West: The Medicine Horn by Jory Sherman (Tor Books)
• Paperback Original: Rage in Chupadera by Norman Zollinger (Bantam Books)
• Nonfiction: Custer’s Last Campaign by John S. Gray (U of Nebraska Press)
• Juvenile Fiction: Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Mikaelsen (Walt Disney Co., Inc.)
• Short Fiction: “Cimarrron, The Killer” by Benjamin Capps (Tales of the Southwest, Doubleday)
• Short Nonfiction: “Marching with the Army of the West” by James A. Crutchfield (Blackpowder Annual)
• Cover Art: Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers by Jane Pattie (Texas A&M U Press)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: The SixthRider by Max McCoy (Doubleday)

1990

• Western Novel: Sanctuary by Gary Svee
• Novel of the West: Home Mountain by Jeanne Williams (St. Martin’s)
• Paperback Original: The Changing Wind by Don Coldsmith (Bantam)
• Nonfiction: Helen Hunt Jackson by Valerie S. Mathes
• Juvenile Fiction: Honey Girlby Madge Harrah
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
• Short Fiction: “Just As I Am” by Joyce Gibson Roach
• Short Nonfiction: “The Ginger Jar” by Shelly Ritthaler
• Cover Art: Dreams in Dry Places by Roger Bruhn
• Motion Picture: Dances With Wolves screenplay by Michael Blake
• Television: “Dust in the Wind” (“Guns of Paradise” series)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Caesar of Santa Feby Tim MacCurdy (Amador Publishers)

1989

• Western Novel: Fool’s Coach by Richard Wheeler (M. Evans)
• Novel of the West: Panther in the Sky by James Alexander Thom (Ballantine)
• Paperback Original: Among the Eagles by C. Clifton Wisler (Fawcett)
• Nonfiction: The Great Plains by Ian Frazier (Farrar Straus Giroux)
• Juvenile: My Daniel by Pam Conrad (Harper & Row)
• Short Fiction: “The Indian Summer of Nancy Redwing” by Harry W Paige (Doubleday)
• Short Nonfiction: “Helen Hunt Jackson and the Ponca Controversy” by Valerie S. Mathes.
• Cover Art: “Berchick” by Tennessee Dixon (Volcano Press)
• Television: “A Letter to Polly” by Paul Savage (Davy Crockett series)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: South Texas by Ann Gabriel (Ballantine)

1988

• Western Novel: Mattie by Judy Alter (Doubleday)
• Novel of the West: The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout (Weidenfeld and Nicholson)
• Nonfiction: Hoover Dam: An AmericanAdventureby Joseph Stevens (U of Oklahoma Press)
• Juvenile: In the Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon (Bantam)
• Short Fiction: “Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography” by Robert J. Conley (U of Oklahoma Press)
• Short Nonfiction: “The Boys of `98” by Dale L. Walker (True West)
• Cover Art: Coyote Tales from the IndianPueblos by Glen Strock (Sunstone Press)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Spirit of theHills by Dan O’Brien (Crown Publishers)

1987

• Western Novel: Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman (Harper & Row)
• Historical Novel: Wanderer Springs by Robert Flynn (TCU Press)
• Nonfiction: Jessie Benton Fremont by Pamela Herr (Franklin Watts)
• Juvenile: The Orphan Train by Joan Lowery Nixon (Bantam)
• Short Fiction: “The Orange County Cowboys” by Max Evans (South Dakota Review)
• Short Nonfiction: `A High-Toned Woman” by Joyce Gibson Roach (Texas Folklore Society)
• Cover Art: C.M. Russell’s West by Sam Abell (Thomasson-Grant)
• Screenplay: Independence by Gordon Dawson
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Jenny’s Mountain by Elaine Long (St. Martin’s)

 

1986

• Western Novel: The Blind Corral by Ralph Robert Beer (Viking)
• Historical Novel: Roman by Douglas C. Jones (Doubleday)
• Nonfiction: Paper Medicine Man: John Cregory Bourke and His American West by Joseph C. Porter (U of Oklahoma Press)
• Juvenile: Make Way for Sam Houston by Jean Fritz (G.E. Putnam’s)
• Short Fiction: “The Bandit” by Loren D. Estleman (Doubleday)
• Short Nonfiction: “Let `Er Buck!” by Robin Cody (The Oregonian)
• Cover Art: “Canyon Country” by DeWitt Jones (Graphics Art Center)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Come Spring by Charlotte Hinger (Simon & Schuster)

1985

• Western Novel: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
• Historical Novel: The Snowblind Moon by John Byrne Cook (Simon & Schuster)
• Nonfiction: Phil Sheridan and His Army by Paul Andrew Hutton (U of Nebraska)
• Juvenile: Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad (Harper)
• Short Fiction: “The Way It Was Told to Me” by Bill Brett (WS Enterprises)
• Short Nonfiction: “The National Game Out West” by Nellie Snyder Yost (Frontier Times)
• Cover Art: Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind by Steven Kellogg (Dial Books)
• Screenplay: Pale Rider by Michael Butler, Dennis Shyrack
• Medicine Pipe: The Snowblind Moon by John Byrne Cook (Simon & Schuster)

1984

• Historical Novel: Gone the Dreams and Dancing by Douglas C. Jones (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
• Nonfiction: Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes by Stella Hughes (U of Arizona Press)
• Juvenile: Trapped in Slickrock Canyon by Gloria Skurzynski (Lothrop Lee & Shepard/William Morrow)
• Short Subject (Fiction): “Sale of One Small Ranch” by Paul St. Pierre (Beaufort Books)
• Short Subject (Nonfiction): “Arbuckle’s: The Coffee That Won the West” by Francis L. Fugate (The American West)
• Cover Art: “Winter Songsinger” by Chuck DeHaan (Frontier Times)
• Special Spur Award (for editorship of The Roundup, 1980-85): Dale L. Walker
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Winterkill by Craig Leslie (Houghton Mifflin)

1983

• Novel: Leaving Kansas by Frank Roderus (Doubleday)
• Historical Novel: Sam Bass by Bryan Woolley (Corona)
• Nonfiction: Quarterdeck and Saddlehorn by Carl Briggs and Clyde Trudell (Arthur H. Clarke)
• Juvenile: Thunder on the Tennessee by Gary Clifton Wisler (Lodestar)
• Short Subject (Fiction): “The Ten Sleep Mail” by William F. Bragg, Jr. (Pruett Publishing Co.)

1982

• Novel: Match Race by Fred Grove (Doubleday)
• Historical Novel: Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson (Ballantine)
• Nonfiction: Albuquerque: A Narrative History by Marc Simmons (U of New Mexico Press)
• Juvenile: Before the Lark by Irene Bennett Brown (Atheneum)
• Short Subject (Fiction): “Horseman” by Oakley Hall (Antioch Review)
• Short Subject (Nonfiction): “The Anasazi” by Thomas Y. Canby (National Geo- graphic Magazine)
• Cover Art: Helga Teiwes, “Apache Indian Baskets” (U of Arizona Press)
• TV Script: “Knights of the White Camelia” by Don Balluck (“Father Murphy” series)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Carry the Wind by Terry C . Johnston (Caroline House)

1981

• Novel: (tie) Eye of the Hawk by Elmer Kelton (Doubleday), and Horizon by Lee Head (Putnam’s)
• Historical Novel: Aces and Eights by Loren D. Estleman (Doubleday)
• Nonfiction: Cowboy Culture by David Dary (Knopf)
• Juvenile: The Last Run by Mark Jonathan Harris (Lothrop, Lee Shepard)
• Cover Art: `A Touch of Winter” by Wayne Baize (Quarter Horse Journal)
• TV Script: “Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands” by Paul Cooper (“Father Murphy” series)
• Short Subject (Fiction): “Kathleen Flaherty’s Long Winter” by Carla Kelly (Far West Magazine)
• Short Subject (Nonfiction): “Buffalo Bill and the Enduring West” by Alice J. Hall (National Geographic Magazine)
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award (Best First Novel): Ride Down the Wind by Wayne Barton (Doubleday)

1980

• Novel: The Valiant Women by Jeanne Williams (Pocket Books)
• Nonfiction: The Peace Chief of the Cheyennes by Stan Hoig (U of Oklahoma)
• Juvenile: Getting There: Frontier Travel Without Power by Suzanne Hilton (Westminster Press)
• Short Subject: “One Man’s Code” by Wayne Barton (Far West)
• TV Script: “May We Make Them Proud” by Michael Landon (“Little House on the Prairie” series)

1979

• Novel: The Holdouts by William Decker (Little Brown)
• Nonfiction: The Apache: Eagles of the Southwest by Don Worcester (U of Oklahoma)
• Short Subject: “Jason Glendauer’s Watch” by James Bellah (Far West)
• TV Script: “The Innocent” by Ray Goldrup (“How the West Was Won” series)
• Special Award: Bill Bragg
• Short Subject (Nonfiction): “Super Bull” by Max Evans (The Seven Horseman Magazine)
• Cover Art: Dee Lambert-Shafer, “Cougar Woman” (Sunstone Press)
• Movie Script: “The Grey Fox” by John Hunter
• Medicine Pipe Bearer Award: Thirsty by Andrew Dequasie (Walker & Co.)

1978

• Novel: Riders to Cibola by Norman Zollinger (Museum of New Mexico Press)
• Nonfiction: Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn by Janet Lecompte (U of Oklahoma)
• Juvenile: The No-Return Trail by Sonia Levitin (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
• Short Subject: `A Season for Heroes” by Carla Kelly (Far West)
• TV Script: “How the West Was Won” by Calvin Clements, John Mantley and Earl W. Wallace
• Movie Script: “Comes a Horseman” by Dennis Lynton Clark

1977

• Novel: The Great Horse Race by Fred Grove (Doubleday)
• Historical Novel: Swimming Man Burning by Terrence Kilpatrick (Doubleday)
• Nonfiction: The Cowgirls by Joyce Gibson Roach (Cordovan)
• Juvenile: A Shepherd Watches, A Shepherd Sings by Louis Irigaray and Theodore Taylor (Doubleday)
• Short Subject: “Where the Cowboys Hunkered Down” by John L. Sinclair (New Mexico Magazine)
• TV Script: “Cully Madigan” by William Kelley (“How the West Was Won” series)
• Special Award: August Lenniger

1976

• Novel: (tie) The Spirit Horses by Lou Cameron (Ballantine) and The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer by Douglas C. Jones (Scribner’s)
• Historical Novel: The Kincaids by Matt Braun (Putnam’s)
• Nonfiction: The Vanishing Whiteman by Stan Steiner (Harper & Row)
• Juvenile:  All Aboard by Philip Ault (Dodd Mead)
• Short Subject: “Jonathan Gilliam & The White Man’s Burden” by C. L. Sonnichsen (Persimmon Hill)
• TV Script: (tie) “The Macahans” by James T. Byrnes (MGM Television) and “Hatchets Drive” by Katharyn M. Powers and Michael Michaelian (Columbia Pictures Television)

1975

• Novel: The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout (Doubleday)
• Nonfiction: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
• Juvenile Fiction: Dust of the Earth by Vera and Bill Cleaver (Lippincott)
• Juvenile Nonfiction: Ride `Em Cowgirl by Lynn Haney (Putnam’s)
• Short Subject: “Apaches in the History of the Southwest” by Donald Worcester (New Mexico Historical Review)
• TV Script: “The Busters” by James T. Byrnes (“Gunsmoke” series)

1974

• Novel: A Hanging In Sweetwater by Stephen Overholser (Doubleday)
• Nonfiction: Colonel Green and the Copper Skyrocket by C. L. Sonnichsen (U of Arizona)
• Juvenile: Susy’s Scoundrel by Harold Keith (Crowell)
• Short Subject: (tie) “The Other Nevadan” by Robert Laxalt (National Geographic Magazine) and “Buried Money” by Eve Ball (True West Magazine)
• TV Script: “Thirty a Month and Found” by James T. Byrnes (“Gunsmoke” series)

1973