Spur AwardWestern Historical Nonfiction

Given by Western Writers of America Inc. (WWA)

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Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most näytä lisää prestigious awards in American literature. Spurs are given for the best western historical novel, best western traditional novel, best western contemporary novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best drama, best documentary, best poem, best song, best children’s picture book and best first novel as well as best first nonfiction book. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (435), Finalist (236)
Luokat:
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2023 (3), 2022 (3), 2020 (3), 2019 (3), 2018 (2), 2017 (1), 2016 (3), 2015 (3), 2006 (1)

Winner 9

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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (tekijä: Megan Kate Nelson)2023
Cheyenne Summer: The Battle of Beecher Island: A History (tekijä: Terry Mort)2022
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (tekijä: Pekka Hämäläinen)2020
Native but foreign : indigenous immigrants and refugees in the North American borderlands (tekijä: Brenden W. Rensink)2019
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (tekijä: David Grann)2018
The Apache Wars (tekijä: Paul Andrew Hutton)2017
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest (tekijä: Prof. William Heath Ph.D.)2016
American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 (tekijä: Jerome A. Greene)2015
Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (tekijä: Louis S. Warren)2006

Finalist 13

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The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn (tekijä: Chris Enss)2023
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation (tekijä: Mark Lee Gardner)2023
Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad (tekijä: Chris Enss)2022
War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion (tekijä: Jeff Guinn)2022
Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache (tekijä: Doug Hocking)2020
The Mormon Handcart Migration: "Tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow" (tekijä: Candy Moulton)2020
The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West (tekijä: Gregory Crouch)2019
West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express (tekijä: Jim DeFelice)2019
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West (tekijä: Christopher Knowlton)2018
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (tekijä: Rinker Buck)2016
Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest (tekijä: Lesley Poling-Kempes)2016
South Pass: Gateway to a Continent (tekijä: Will Bagley)2015
Chasing the Santa Fe Ring: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico (tekijä: david l. caffey)2015

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Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Spurs are given for the best western historical novel, best western traditional novel, best western contemporary novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best drama, best documentary, best poem, best song, best children’s picture book and best first novel as well as best first nonfiction book.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://westernwriters.org/spur-awards/
Lists of Spur Award winners are at:
http://westernwriters.org/winners/ (English, Member-written)

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