FICTION / NON-FICTION / JUVENILE / SHORT MATERIAL
Books are grouped under Fiction, Nonfiction, and Juvenile, by authors. The year of the award is the same as the year of publication. the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award is for best first novel. Over the years, designations for short material have changed, as reflected in listings under "Short material." Additional awards are offered for motion picture and television screenplays and cover art; in the early years, there was a category for Reviewers. These shown under "Other Awards."
Adams, Clifton, The Last Days of Wolf Garnett (Doubleday, 1970), Novel.
Adams, Clifton, Tragg's Choice (Doubleday, 1969), Novel.
Alter, Judy, Mattie (Doubleday, 1988), Western Novel.
Ballard, Todhunter, Gold in California (Doubleday, 1965), tie, Historical Novel.
Barton, Wayne, Tide Down the Wind (Doubleday, 1981), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Bean, Amelia, The Fancher Train (Doubleday, 1963), Novel.
Beer, Ralph Robert, The Blind Corral (Viking, 1986), Western Novel.
Berry, Don, Moon Trap (Viking, 1962), Historical Novel.
Brackett, Leigh, Follow the Free Wind (Doubleday, 1963), Novel
Braun, Matt, The Kincaids (Putnam's, 1976), Historical Novel.
Brown, Will C., The Nameless Breed (Macmillan, 1960), Novel.
Cameron, Lou, The Spirit Horses (Ballantine, 1976), Novel.
Capps, Benjamin, Sam Chance (Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1965), Novel.
Capps, Benjamin, The Trail to Ogallala (Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1964) Novel.
Capps, Benjamin, The White Man's Road (Harper & Row, 1969), Historical Novel.
Coldsmith, Don, The Changing Wind (Bantam, 1990) Paperback Original.
Conley, Robert Juvenile., Nickajack (Doubleday, 1992), Western Novel.
Cooke, John Byrne, The Snowblind Moon (Simon & Schuster, 1985), Historical Novel and Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Cushman, Dan, Silver Mountain (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957), Historical Novel.
Davis, Wayne, John Stone and the Choctaw Kid (M.Evans, 1992), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Decker, William, The Holdouts (Little, Brown, 1979), Novel.
Dequasie, Andrew, Thirsty (Walker & Co., 1983), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Ernenwein, Leslie, High Gun (Gold Medal Books, 1956), Novel.
Estleman, Loren, Aces and Eights (Doubleday, 1981), Historical Novel.
Fisher, Vardis, Mountain Man (Morrow, 1965), tie, Historical Novel.
Flynn, Robert, Wanderer Springs (TCU Press, 1987), Historical Novel.
Gabriel, Ann, South Texas (Ballantine, 1989), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Grove, Fred, Comanche Captives (Ballantine, 1962), Novel.
Grove, Fred, The Great Horse Race (Doubleday, 1977), Novel.
Grove, Fred, Match Race (Doubleday, 1982), Novel.
Halloran, E.E., Indian Fighter (Ballantine, 1964), Historical Novel.
Head, Lee, Horizon (Putnam's, 1981), tie, Novel.
Henry, Will, Chiricahua (Lippincott, 1972), Historical novel.
Henry, Will, From Where the Sun Now Stands (Random House, 1963), Historical Novel.
Henry, Will, Gates of the Mountains (Random House, 1963), Historical Novel.
Hillerman, Tony, Skinwalker (Harper & Row, 1987), Western Novel.
Hinger, Charlotte, Come Spring (Simon & Schuster, 1986), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Hoffman, Lee, The Valdez Horses (Doubleday, 1967), Novel.
Holmes, L.P., Somewhere They Die (Little, Brown, 1955), Novel.
Hunt, John Clinton, Generations of Men (Little, Brown, 1956), Historical Novel.
Johnston, Terry C., Carry the Wind (Caroline House, 1982), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Jones, Douglas C., The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (Scriber's, 1976), tie, novel.
Jones, Douglas C., Gone the Dreams and Dancing (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984), Historical Novel.
Jones, Douglas C., Roman (Doubleday, 1986), Historical Novel.
Kelton, Elmer, Buffalo Wagons (Ballantine, 1957), Novel.
Kelton, Elmer, The Day the Cowboys Quit (Doubleday, 1971) Novel.
Kelton, Elmer, Eye of the Hawk (Doubleday, 1981), tie, Novel.
Kelton, Elmer, Slaughter (Doubleday, 1992), Novel of the West.
Kelton, Elmer, The Time It Never Rained (Doubleday, 1973), Novel.
Kilpatrick, Terrence, Swimming Man Burning (Doubleday, 1977), Historical Novel.
L'Amour, Louis, Down the Long Hills (Bantam, 1968), Novel.
Leighton, Lee, Lawman (Ballantine Books, 1953), Novel.
Leslie, Craig, Winterkill (Houghton Mifflin, 1984), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Long, Elaine, Jenny's Mountain (St. Martin's, 1987), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Loomis, Noel, Short Cut to Red River (Macmillan, 1958), Novel.
Lutz, Giles, The Honyocker (Doubleday, 1961), Novel.
MacCurdy, Tim, Caesar of Santa Fe (Amador Publishers, 1990), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Mathesen, Richard, Journal of the Gun Years (M.Evans, 1991), Western Novel.
McCoy, Max, The Sixth Rider (Doubleday, 1991), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
McMurtry, Larry, Lonesome Dove (Simon & Schuster, 1985), Western Novel.
Moore, Lucia, The Wheel and the Hearth (Ballantine Books, 1953), Historical Novel.
Nye, Nelson, Long Run (Macmillan, 191959), Novel.
O'Brien, Dan, Spirit of the Hills (Crown Publishers, 1988), Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
Oliver, Chad, The Wolf Is My Brother (New American Library, 1967), Historical Novel.
Olsen, T.V., The Golden Chance (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1992), Original Paperback.
Overholser, Stephen, A Hanging in Sweetwater (Doubleday, 1974), Novel.
Overholser, Wayne D., The Violent Land (Macmillan, 1954), Novel.
Patten, Lewis, A Killing in Kiowa (New American Library, 1972), Novel.
Patten, Lewis, The Red Sabbath (Doubleday, 1968), Historical Novel.
Prebble, John, The Buffalo Soldiers (Harcourt Brace, 1959), Historical Novel.
Prescott, John, Journey by the River (Random House, 1954), Historical Novel.
Purdum, Herbert R., My Brother John (Doubleday, 1966), Novel.
Roark, Garland, and Charles Thomas, Hellfire Jackson (Doubleday, 1966), Historical Novel.
Robson, Lucia St. Clair, Ride the Wind (Ballantine, 1982), Historical Novel.
Roderus, Frank, Leaving Kansas (Doubleday, 1983), Novel.
Sherman Jory, The Medicine Horn (Tor Books, 1991), Novel of the West.
Snyder, Cecil, Big With Vengeance (Ballantine, 1969), First Western Novel.
Svee, Gary, Sanctuary (Walker, 1990), Western Novel.
Swarthout, Glendon, The Homesman (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1988), Novel of the West.
Swarthout, Glendon, The Shootist (Doubleday, 1975), Novel.
Thom, James Alexander, Panther in the Sky (Ballantine, 1989), Novel of the West.
Wheeler, Richard, Fool's Coach (M.Evans, 1989), Western Novel.
Williams, Jeanne, Home Mountain (St. Martin's, 1990), Novel of the West.
Williams, Jeanne, The Valiant Women (Pocket Books, 1980), Novel.
Wisler, G.Clifton, Among the Eagles (Fawcett, 1989), Paperback Original.
Wister, William, The Winter War (Little, Brown, 1961), Historical Novel.
Woolley, Bryan, Sam Bass (Corona, 1983),Historical Novel.
Zollinger, Norman, Rage in Chupadera (Bantam, 1991), Original Paperback.
Zollinger, Norman, Riders to Cibola (Museum of New Mexico Press, 1978), Novel.
Barker, Elliott, Western Life and Adventures (Calvin Horn, 1971), Nonfiction.
Barlett, R.A. Great Surveys of the American West (U.of Oklahoma Press, 1962), Nonfiction.
Billington, Ray, America's Frontier Heritage (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1966), Nonfiction.
Briggs, Carl, and Clyde Trudell, Quarterdeck and Saddlehorn (Arthur H. Clarke, 1983), Nonfiction.
Dary, Dacid, Cowboy Culture (Knopf, 1981), Nonfiction.
Dillon, Richard, Burnt Out Fires (Prentice-Hall, 1973), Nonfiction.
Fisher, Vardis, and Opal Laurel Holmes, Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West (Caston, 1969), Nonfiction.
Frazier, Ian, The Great Plains (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989), Nonfiction.
Gray, John S., Custer's Last Campaign (U.of Nebraska, 1991), Nonfiction.
Greever, William S., The Bonanza West (U.of Oklahoma, 1963), Nonfiction.
Haines, Francis, The Buffalo (Crowell, 1970), Nonfiction.
Hawgood, John, America's Western Frontiers (Knopf, 1967), Nonfiction.
Herr, Pamela, Jessie Benton Fremont (Franklin Watts, 1987), Nonfiction.
Hoig, Stan, The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes (U.of Oklahoma), Nonfiction.
Homsher, Lola M., ed., South Pass 1868 (U.of Nebraska Press, 1960), Nonfiction.
Horgan, Paul, Lamy of Santa Fe (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1975), Nonfiction.
Howard, Robert West, ed., This Is the West (New American Library, 1957) Nonfiction.
Hughes, Stella, Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes (U.of Arizona, 1984), Nonfiction.
Hutton, Paul Andrew, Phil Sheridan and His Army (U.of Nebraska, 1985) Nonfiction.
Josephy, Alvin M., The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Norhtwest (Yale U Press, 1965), Nonfiction.
Lavender, David, Bent's Fort (Doubleday, 1954), Nonfiction.
Lavender, David, Let Me Be Free (HarperCollins Publishers, 1992), Nonfiction Book.
Lee, Mabel Barbee, Cripple Creek Days (Doubleday, 1958), Nonfiction.
Lecompte, Janet, Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn (U.of Oklahoma, 1958), Nonfiction.
Mathes, Valerie S., Helen Hunt Jackson (U.of Texas, 1990), Nonfiction.
McHugh, Tom, The Time of the Buffalo (Knopf, 1972), Nonfiction.
Osgood, E.S., Field Notes of Capt. William Clark (Yale U Press, 1964), Nonfiction.
Porter, Joseph C., Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West (U.of Oklahoma, 1986), Nonfiction.
Roach, Joyce Gibson, The Cowgirls (Cordovan, 1977), Nonfiction.
Russell, Don, Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill (U.of Oklahoma Press, 1961), Nonfiction.
Sharp, Paul F., Shoot-Up Country (U.of Minnesota Press, 1955), Nonfiction.
Simmons, Marc, Albuquerque: A Narrative History (U.of New Mexico, 1982) Nonfiction.
Sonnichsen, C.L., Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket (U.of Arizona, 1974), Nonfiction.
Steiner, Stan, The Vanishing Whiteman (Harper & Row, 1976), Nonfiction.
Stevens, Joseph, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure (U.of Oklahoma, 1988), Nonfiction.
Stone, Irving, Men to Match My Mountains (Doubleday, 1956) Nonfiction.
Tolbert, Frank, Day of San Jacinto (McGraw-Hill, 1959), Nonfiction.
Worcester, Don, The Apache Eagles of the Southwest (U.of Oklahoma, 1979), Nonfiction.
Yost, Nellie Snyder, Boss Cowman (U.of Nebraska Press, 1969), Nonfiction.
Andrist, Ralph, To the Pacific with Lewis and Clark (American Heritage Junior Books, 1967), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Ault, Philip, All Aboard! (Dodd Mead, 1976), Juvenile.
Baker, Betty, The Dunderhead War (Harper & Row, 1967), tie, Juvenile Fiction.
Benchley, Nathaniel, Only Earth & Sky Last Forever (Harper & Row, 1972), Juvenile Fiction.
Brown, Irene Bennett, Before the Lark (Atheneum, 1982), Juvenile.
Burleson, Elizabeth, Middl'un (Follett, 1968), Juvenile Fiction
Cleaver, Vera and Bill, Dust of the Earth (Lippincott, 1975), Juvenile Fiction.
Conrad, Pam, My Daniel (Harper & Row1989), Juvenile.
Conrad, Pam, Prairie Songs (Harper, 1985), Juvenile.
Fisher, Aileen, Valley of the Smallest (Crowell, 1966), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Fleischman, Sid (A.E.), By the Great Spoon (Little, Brown, 1963), tie, Juvenile.
Folsom, Franklin, Red Power on the Rio Grande (Follett, 1973), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Fritz, Jean, Make Way for Sam Houston (Putnam's, 1986), Juvenile.
Hall-Quest, Olga, Conquistadores and Pueblos (Dutton, 1969), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Haney, Lynn, Ride `Em Cowgirl (Putnam's, 1975), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Harrah, Madge, Honey Girl (Avon Books, 1990), Juvenile Fiction.
Harris, Mark Jonathan, The Last Run (Lothrop, Lee Shepard, 1981), Juvenile.
Hilton, Suzanne, Getting There: Frontier Travel Without Power (Westminster Press, 1980), Juvenile.
Irigaray, Louis and Theodore Taylor, A Shepherd Watches, a Shepherd Sings (Doubleday, 1977), Juvenile.
Johnson, Annabel and Edgar, The Burning Glass (Harper & Row, 1966), Juvenile Fiction.
Keith, Harold, Susy's Scoundrel (Crowell), Juvenile.
Kenoyer, Natlee, The Western Horse (Meredith Press, 1962), Juvenile.
Kjelgaard, Wolf Brother (Holiday House, 1957), Juvenile.
Lampman, Evelyn, Cayuse Courage (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), Juvenile Fiction.
Lampman, Evelyn, Half Breed (Doubleday, 1967), tie, Juvenile Fiction.
Levitin, Sonia, The No-Return Trail (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 19978), Juvenile.
Loh, Jules, Lords of the Earth (Crowell-Collier, 1971), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Mikaelsen, Ben, Rescue Josh McGuire (Walt Disney Co., 1991), Juvenile Fiction.
Montgomery, Rutherford, The Stubborn One (Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1965), Juvenile.
Niehuis, Charles, Trapping the Silver Beaver (Dodd Mead, 1956), Juvenile.
Nixon, Joan Lowery, In the Face of Danger (Bantam, 1988), Juvenile.
Nixon, Joan Lowery, The Orphan Train (Bantam, 1987), Juvenile.
Overholser, Wayne and Lewis Patten, The Meeker Massacre (Cowles, 1969), Juvenile Fiction.
Paulsen, Gary, The Haymeadow (Delacorte, 1992), Juvenile Fiction.
Paulsen, Gary, Woodsong (Bradbury Press, 1990), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Payne, Stephen, Hero of the Range (Latern Press, 1954), Juvenile.
Place, Marion T., Retreat to the Bear Paw (Four Winds Press, 1970), tie, Juvenile Nonfiction.
Place, Marion T., Rifles and Warbonnets (Ives Washburn, 1968), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Robertson, Frank C., Sagebrush Sorrel (Thomas Nelson, 1953), Juvenile.
Sandoz, Mari, The Story Catcher (Westminster Press, 1963), tie, Juvenile.
Skurzynski, Gloria, Trapped in Sliprock (Lothrop Lee & Shepard/William Morrow, 1984), Juvenile.
Stanley, Jerry, Children of the Dust Bowl (Crown Publishers, 1992), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Steiner, Stan, The Tiguas (Crowell-Collier, 1972), Juvenile Nonfiction.
Terrell, John Upton, Search for the Seven Cities (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), tie, Juvenile Nonfiction.
Weeks, Ramona Maher, Thier Shining Hour (John Day, 1959), Juvenile Fiction.
White, Dale, Hold Back the Hunter (Viking, 1959), Juvenile Nonfiction.
White, Dale, Steamboat Up the Missouri (Viking, 1959), Juvenile.
Williams, Jeanne, Freedom Trail (Putnum's, 1973), Juvenile Fiction.
Williams, Jeanne, The Horse Talker (Prentice-Hall, 1960), Juvenile.
Wisler, Gary Vlifton, Thunder on the Tennessee (Lodedstar, 1983), Juvenile.
Wormser, Richard, The Black Mustanger (Morrow, 1971) Juvenile Fiction.
Wormser, Richard, Ride a Northbound Horse (Morrow 1964), Juvenile.
Ball, Eve, "Buried Money" (True West Magazine, 1974), tie, Short Subject.
Barker, S.Omar,"Bad Company" (Saturday Evening Post, 1955), Short Story.
Barker, S.Omar,"Empty Saddles at Christmas" (Western Horseman, 1966), Short Material.
Barton, Wayne, "One Man's Code" (Far West, 1980), Short Subject.
Bellah, James, "Jason Glendauer's Watch" (Far West, 1979), Short Subject.
Bragg, William F., "The Ten Sleep Mail" (Pruett Publishing Co., 1983), Short Subject (Fiction).
Brett, Bill, "The Way It Was Told to Me" (WS Enterprises, 1985), Short Fiction.
Canby, Thomas Y., "The Anasazi" (National Geographic, 1982), Short Subject (Nonfiction).
Capps, Benjamin, "Cimarron, The Killer" (Tales of the Southwest, Doubleday, 1991), Short Fiction.
Clark, Earl, "Shootout in Burke Canyou" (American Heritage, 1971), Short Subject.
Cody, Robin, "Let `Er Buck!" (The Oregonian, 1986), Short Nonfiction.
Conley, Robert, "Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography" (U.of Oklahoma, 1988), Short Fiction.
Crutchfield, James A., "Marching With the Army of the West" (Blackpowder Annual, 1991), Short Nonfiction.
Curry, Peggy Simson, "The Brushoff" (Saturday Evening Post, 1957), Short Story.
Curry, Peggy Simson, "In the Silence" (Boy's Life, 1970), Short Subject.
Estleman, Loren, "The Bandit" (Doubleday, 1986), Short Fiction.
Evans, Max, "The Orange County Cowboys" (South Dakota Review, 1987), Short Fiction.
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