award-winning books
Publishing Award-Winning Books. A Tradition at the University of Oklahoma Press.
Since publishing its first book in 1929, the University of Oklahoma Press and its authors have received more than 320 honors. Of these more than 240 have been received in the last ten years:
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2011 New Mexico Book Awards - Fiction, Adventure/Drama (winner)
RANDY LOPEZ GOES HOME: A Novel
By Rudolfo Anaya
2011 New Mexico Book Awards - Biography (tie)
OPEN RANGE: The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland
By Darlis A. Miller
2011 New Mexico Book Awards - Biography (tie)
KIT CARSON: The Life of an American Border Man
By David Remley
2011 New Mexico Book Awards - Multi-cultural Subject (winner)
CHIEF LOCO: Apache Peacemaker
By Bud Shapard
2011 New Mexico Book Awards - Joe Sando Western History Award (winner)
N. SCOTT MOMADAY: Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliography
By Phyllis S. Morgan
2011 New Mexico Book Awards - Multi-cultural Subject (finalist)
FROM COCHISE TO GERONIMO: The Chiricahua Apache, 1874-1886
By Edwin R. Sweeney
2011 New Mexico Book Awards - History, New Mexico Subject (finalist)
THE BRONCO BILL GANG
By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner
U.S. Army War College Staff and Faculty Published Writing Competition 2011 (winner)
GANGS, PSEUDO-MILITARIES, AND OTHER MODERN MERCENARIES: New Dynamics in Uncomfortable Wars
By Max G. Manwaring
Western History Association Joan Patterson Kerr Award—Best Illustrated Book on the History of the West (winner)
CHARLES DEAS AND 1840s AMERICA
By Carol Clark, Joan Carpenter Triccoli, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Guy Jordan
Western History Association Hal K. Rothman Award—Best First Book on the History of the West (winner)
INDIAN BLUES: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934
By John W. Troutman
2011 Nebraska Book Awards (runner-up)
THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED, VOL. 2
Edited by Marsha Gallagher and Steve Witte
Wyoming State Historical Society Book Awards—Non-fiction (winner)
DUDE RANCHING IN YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY: Larry Larom and Valley Ranch, 1915-1969
by W. Hudson Kensel
Wyoming State Historical Society Book Awards—Biography (winner)
HORACE PLUNKETT IN AMERICA: An Irish Aristocrat on the Wyoming Range
by Lawrence M. Woods
Wyoming State Historical Society Book Awards—Reference (winner)
RED CLOUD'S WAR: The Bozeman Trail 1866-1868
by John McDermott
Wyoming State Historical Society Book Awards—Non-fiction (winner)
WYOMING RANGE WAR: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
by John Davis
John Whitmer Historical Association Smith-Pettit Best Book Award in Latter Day Saint History (winner)
THE MORMON REBELLION: America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
by David L. Bigler and Will Bagley
Westerner's International Co-Founders Best Book Award (second place)
Outstanding Book on Wild West History—Wild West History Association (winner)
International Latino Book Awards—Best Biography (winner)
Best Nonfiction Writer—True West Magazine—Best of the West 2011
Spur Awards—Western Writers of America—Best Western Nonfiction Biography (finalist)
BANDIDO: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
by John Boessenecker
ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year—Autobiography/Memoir (honorable mention)
WHEN I CAME WEST
by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Donnelly Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences—American Conference for Irish Studies (winner)
BEYOND THE AMERICAN PALE
by David Emmons
Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellent—Outstanding Art & Photography Book (winner)
Outstanding Photography Book—Western Heritage Awards—National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (winner)
LIFE AT THE KIOWA, COMANCHE, AND WICHITA AGENCY
by Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett
Willa Literary Award Creative—Non-fiction (finalist)
High Plains Book Award—Best First Book
Montana Book Award—Friends of the Missoula Public Library (winner)
BOUND LIKE GRASS
by Ruth McLaughlin
High Plains Book Award—Art and Photography
Montana Book Award—Friends of the Missoula Public Library (honor book)
VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY
by Dan Flores (finalist)
Western History Association Robert M. Utley Award—Best Book on Military History (winner)
Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize (winner)
HANCOCK'S WAR
by William Y. Chalfant
Benjamin Franklin Award—Coffee Table Book—Independent Book Publisher Association (finalist)
IPPY Award—Coffee Table Book–Independent Publishers (silver medal)
Oklahoma Book Award—Non-fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book (finalist)
Oklahoma Book Award—Design/Illustration—Oklahoma Center for the Book (finalist - Tony Roberts and Julie Rushing, designers)
ARENA LEGACY
by Richard C. Rattenbury
East Texas Historical Association
IPPY Award—Reference Book–Independent Publishers (bronze medal)
Texas Reference Source Award—Texas Library Association
TEXAS: A HISTORICAL ATLAS
by A. Ray Stephens
Spur Awards—Western Writers of America—Best Western Nonfiction Historical (finalist)
Outstanding Nonfiction Book—Western Heritage Awards—National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (winner)
SO RUGGED AND MOUNTAINOUS
by Will Bagley
Spur Awards—Western Writers of America—Best Western Nonfiction Historical (finalist)
BEYOND BEAR'S PAW
by Jerome A. Greene
Outstanding Oklahoma Book Award—Oklahoma Historical Society (winner)
Oklahoma Book Award—Non-fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book (finalist)
RACE AND THE UNIVERSITY
by George Henderson
2010 International Napoleonic Society Literary Award (first place)
Templer Book Prize—Society for Army Historical Research (runner up)
ALL FOR THE KING'S SHILLING
by Edward J. Coss
Distinguished Writing Award—The Army Historical Foundation (finalist)
A PERFECT GIBRALTAR
by Christopher D. Dishman
Oklahoma Book Award—Non-fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book (finalist)
LUIS ORTEGA'S RAWHIDE ARTISTRY
by Don Reeves and Chuck Stormes
Southwest Books of the Year (2010)—Pima County Public Library
FROM COCHISE TO GERONIMO: THE CHIRICAHUA APACHES, 1874-1886
by Edwin R. Sweeney
THE PEYOTE ROAD: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH
by Thomas C. Maroukis
V.O. Key Award—Southern Political Association
THE TRIUMPH OF VOTING RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH
by Charles S. Bullock III and Ronald Keith Gaddie
Presidio La Bahia Award—The Sons of the Republic of Texas
TEXAS: A HISTORICAL ATLAS
by A. Ray Stephens
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles 2010
SO RUGGED AND MOUNTAINOUS: BLAZING THE TRAILS TO OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, 1812-1848
by Will Bagley
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE FIGHT FOR EQUAL VOTING RIGHTS
by Laughlin McDonald
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards
MILITARY REGISTER OF CUSTER'S LAST COMMAND (finalist)
by Roger L. Williams
2010 Western History Association Dwight L. Smith Award
THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED, Vol. 1
Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher
High Plains Book Award—Best Nonfiction—Parmly Billings Library
LANTERNS ON THE PRAIRIE: THE BLACKFEET PHOTOGRAPHS OF WALTER MCCLINTOCK
by Steven L. Grafe
FACES OF THE FRONTIER: PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS FROM THE AMERICAN WEST, 1845-1924 (finalist)
By Frank H. Goodyear III
Cox Book Prize—The Society of the Cincinnati
WITH ZEAL AND WITH BAYONETS ONLY
by Matthew Spring
Louise Barry Writing Award—Santa Fe Trail Association
HANCOCK’S WAR: CONFLICT ON THE SOUTHERN PLAINS
by William Y. Chalfant
Idaho Book Award
THE GOOD TIMES ARE ALL GONE NOW: LIFE, DEATH, AND REBIRTH IN AN IDAHO MINING TOWN (Honorable Mention)
by Julie Whitesel Weston
Best Book Award—Wild West History Association
DODGE CITY: THE EARLY YEARS, 1872-1886
by William B. Shillingberg
Best Anthology—New Mexico Book Awards
THE ESSAYS (winner)
by Rudolfo Anaya
Best Biography—New Mexico Book Awards
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, THE COLD WAR, AND THE ATOMIC WEST (finalist)
by Jon Hunner
Best History Book (New Mexico Subject)—New Mexico Book Awards
CONFLICT ON THE RIO GRANDE: WATER AND THE LAW, 1879–1939 (finalist)
by Douglas R. Littlefield
Best Multi-cultural Subject-New Mexico Book Awards
INDIAN ALLIANCES AND THE SPANISH IN THE SOUTHWEST, 750–1750 (finalist)
by William B. Carter
International Napoleonic Society Literary Prize
THE WAR OF 1812 IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
by Jeremy Black (2nd Prize)
Mormon History Association Turner—Bergera Best Biography Award
MORMON CONVERT, MORMON DEFECTOR
Polly Aird
International Latino Book Awards Nonfiction Best History—Political Book
HERO STREET, U.S.A
by Marc Wilson
International Latino Book Awards Nonfiction Best Biography
THE ESSAYS
by Rudolfo Anaya (2nd place)
Oklahoma Historical Society—Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History
CHOCTAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 1884-1907
by Devon Abbott Mihesua
Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc.—Trophy Award for the Best Nonfiction Book
CHOCTAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 1884-1907 by Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Douglas Southall Freeman History Award
CIVIL WAR ARKANSAS, 1863
by Mark Christ
Western Heritage Awards—Outstanding Art Book—National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
THE MASTERWORKS OF CHARLES M. RUSSELL
by Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Western Writers of America SPUR Awards—Best Nonfiction Historical
FORT LARAMIE (AHC)
by Douglas McChristian WINNER
DODGE CITY (AHC)
by William B. Shillingberg (finalist)
Western Writers of America SPUR Awards—Best Nonfiction Biography
MORMON CONVERT, MORMON DEFECTOR (AHC)
by Polly Aird (finalist)
Colorado Book Awards
GOING GREEN
by Laura Pritchett FINALIST
Leonard Bloomfield Book Award—Linguistic Society of America
LET'S SPEAK CHICKASAW
by Pamela Munro
Southwest Book Award—Border Regional Library Association
BIG SYCAMORE STANDS ALONE
by Ian Record
John Carroll Award—Little Bighorn Associates Literary Awards
MILITARY REGISTER OF CUSTER'S LAST COMMAND
by Roger L. Williams
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
DIVIDED HEARTS
by Michael Cassity and Danney Goble (finalist)
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
INDIAN TRIBES OF OKLAHOMA (finalist)
by Blue Clark
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
COACH TOMMY THOMPSON AND THE BOYS (finalist)
by Patti Dickinson
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
CHOCTAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 1884-1907 (finalist)
by Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Oklahoma Book Award—Poetry—Oklahoma Center for the Book
TOO LONG A SOLITUDE (finalist)
by James Ragan
Oklahoma Book Award—Design/Illustration—Oklahoma Center for the Book
LANTERNS ON THE PRAIRIE (finalist)
Eric H. Anderson and Karen Hayes-Thumann designers
2009 WILLA Literary Award Best Scholarly Nonfiction—Women Writing the West
FULL-COURT QUEST
by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Montana Book Award—Montana Library Association
FULL-COURT QUEST
by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary—Western Writers of America
FULL-COURT QUEST
by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Western Heritage Awards—Western Novel—National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED, VOL 1
by Marsha V. Gallagher
Western Heritage Awards—Art Book—National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
IN CONTEMPORARY RHYTHM : THE ART OF ERNEST L. BLUMENSCHEIN
by Peter H. Hassrick
The State Historical Society of Missouri—Eagleton-Waters Book Award (Missouri Political History)
WILLIAM CLARK: INDIAN DIPLOMAT
by Jay H. Buckley
The State Historical Society of Missouri—Best Book Award (History of Missouri and Missourians)
WILLIAM CLARK: INDIAN DIPLOMAT
by Jay H. Buckley
Oklahoma Book Award—Design/Illustration—Oklahoma Center for the Book
PLACING MEMORY WINNER
by Todd Stewart
Oklahoma Book Award – Nonfiction – Oklahoma Center for the Book
OKLAHOMA: A HISTORY (finalist) Mbr/>by W. David Baird and Danney Goble
Oklahoma Book Award – Nonfiction – Oklahoma Center for the Book
A LETTER TO AMERICA (finalist)
by David Boren
Oklahoma Book Award – Nonfiction – Oklahoma Center for the Book
GRAPPLING WITH DEMON RUM (finalist)
by James E. Klein
Oklahoma Book Award—Non-Fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
FULL-COURT QUEST
by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
THE NEZ PERCES IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY (finalist)
by J. Diane Pearson
Violet Crown—Writer's League of Texas
HARPSONG (WINNER)
By Rilla Askew
Wyoming State Historical Society Biography Prize—Wyoming State Historical Society
WILLIAM F. CODY'S WYOMING EMPIRE: THE BUFALLO BILL NOBODY KNOWS
By Robert E. Bonner
Collier Prize for Still Photography—Utah Society for Visual Anthropology
A DANISH PHOTOGRAPHER OF IDAHO INDIANS: BENEDICTE WRENSTED
By Joanna Cohan Scherer
Best Documentary Book Award—Utah State Historical Society
AT SWORD'S POINT: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE UTAH WAR TO 1858
By William P. MacKinnon
Book of the Year (Historical Fiction)—Foreword Magazine
HARPSONG (finalist)
By Rilla Askew
Book of the Year (Short Stories)—Foreword Magazine
SOME OF TIM'S STORIES(finalist)
By S.E. Hinton
Caughey Western History Association Prize —Western History Association
CHARLES M. RUSSELL: A CATALOG RAISONNE
By B. Byron Price
Distinguished Writing Award—Biography—Army Historical Foundation
GEORGE THOMAS: VIRGINIAN FOR THE UNION
By Christopher J. Einolf
Distinguished Writing Award—Journals, Memoirs, and Letters—Army Historical Foundation
MARCHING WITH THE FIRST NEBRASKA ( (finalist)
By August Scherneckau
Distinguished Writing Award—Reference—Army Historical Foundation
UNIFORMS, ARMS, AND EQUIPMENT: THE U.S. ARMY OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER, 1880-1892, VOLUME I & II
By Douglas McChristian
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award—Historical Society of New Mexico
VICTORIO: APACHE WARIOR AND CHIEF (co-winner)
By Kathleen Chamberlain
Oklahoma Book Award—Fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
HARPSONG
By Rilla Askew
Oklahoma Book Award—Design/Illustration—Oklahoma Center for the Book
OKLAHOMA: A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA
By Libby Bender, Carl Brune, and Scott Raffe
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
ALTERNATIVE OKLAHOMA (finalist)
By Davis Joyce
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
THE SEMINOLE FREEDMEN (finalist)
By Kevin Mulroy
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
VOICES FROM THE HEARTLAND (finalist)
Edited by Carolyn Anne Taylor, Emily Dial-Driver, Carole Burrage, and Sally Emmons-Featherston
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
BOOKS ON TRIAL (finalist)
By Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand
Robert M. Utley Prize —Western History Association
GALL: LAKOTA WAR CHIEF
By Robert Larson
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction Biography—Western Writers of America
GALL: LAKOTA WAR CHIEF
By Robert Larson
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction Historical—Western Writers of America
WILLIAM F. CODY'S WYOMING EMPIRE (finalist)
By Robert Bonner
Western Heritage Awards—Art Book—National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
CHARLES M. RUSSELL: A CATALOG RAISONNE
By B. Byron Price
Western Heritage Awards—Western Novel—National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
HARPSONG
By Rilla Askew
WILLA Historical Fiction Award—Women Writing the West
HARPSONG
By Rilla Askew
Southwest Book of the Year—Regional Library Association
THE CIVIL WAR IN ARIZONA
By Andrew E. Masich
Outstanding Academic Title—Choice Magazine
CRAZY HORSE: A LAKOTA LIFE
By Kingsley M. Bray
2007 Publication Award—San Antonio Conservation Society
CONQUEST OF TEXAS
By Gary Clayton Anderson
Co-Founder Best Book Award—Westerners International
JOHN SUTTER
By Albert L. Hurtado
New Mexico Book Award—Best Southwest History Book
RIDING FOR THE BRAND
By Michael Pettit
New Mexico Book Award—Best Novel, Adventure or Drama
THE MARRIAGE OF SAINTS (finalist)
By Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Caughey Western History Association Prize—Western History Association
JOHN SUTTER
By Albert L. Hurtado
Joan Paterson Kerr Award—Western History Association
A NORTHERN CHEYENNE ALBUM
Edited by Margot Liberty
2006 Book Award—Idaho Library Association
A DANISH PHOTOGRAPHER OF IDAHO INDIANS
By Joanna C. Scherer
High Plains Best New Book Award—Parmly Billings Library
JAY COOKE'S GAMBLE
By M. John Lubetkin
High Plains Book of the Year Award—Parmly Billings Library
INDIANS AND EMIGRANTS
By Michael L. Tate
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award—Oklahoma Center for the Book
David Dary
Co-Founders Best Book of 2006—Westerners International
JOHN SUTTER
By Albert L. Hurtado
John M. Carroll Award (Book of the Year)—Little Bighorn Associates
JAY COOKE'S GAMBLE
By M. John Lubetkin
Best Book Award—Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association
JAY COOKE'S GAMBLE
By M. John Lubetkin
Best Book of 2006—Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association
CRAZY HORSE: A LAKOTA LIFE
By Kingsley M. Bray
Independent Publisher Book Award—Biography—Independent Publisher Magazine
CRAZY HORSE: A LAKOTA LIFE (bronze medal)
By Kingsley M. Bray
Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize—Center for Great Plains Studies
INDIANS AND EMIGRANTS
By Michael L. Tate
Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize—Center for Great Plains Studies
CRAZY HORSE: A LAKOTA LIFE(finalist)
By Kingsley M. Bray
Spur Award—Best Western Biography—Western Writers of America
CRAZY HORSE: A LAKOTA LIFE
By Kingsley M. Bray
Spur Award—Best Historical Non-Fiction—Western Writers of America
JAY COOKE'S GAMBLE (finalist)
By M. John Lubetkin
Spur Award—Best Western Biography—Western Writers of America
JOHN SUTTER (finalist)
By Albert L. Hurtado
Book of the Year (Short Stories)—Foreword Magazine
THE MAN WHO COULD FLY (finalist)
By Rudolfo Anaya
Oklahoma Book Award—Fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
DREAMS TO DUST
By Sheldon Russell
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
HISTORICAL ATLAS OF OKLAHOMA FOURTH EDITION
By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble
Oklahoma Book Award—Fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
BLACK SILK HANDKERCHIEF (finalist)
By D.L. Birchfield
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
MR. AMBASSADOR: WARRIOR FOR PEACE (finalist)
By Ambassador Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
MR. AMBASSADOR: WARRIOR FOR PEACE (finalist)
By Ambassador Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley
Distinguished Writing Award—Army Historical Foundation
THE UNCIVIL WAR: IRREGULAR WARFARE IN THE UPPER SOUTH, 1861 - 1865 (finalist)
by Robert R. Mackey
ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award—Literary Fiction
WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN: A NOVEL (finalist)
by Sanora Babb
Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award—Historical Society of New Mexico
INVENTING LOS ALAMOS: THE GROWTH OF AN ATOMIC COMMUNITY
by Jon Hunner
Oklahoma Book Award—Fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
FOLLOWING THE HARVEST: A NOVEL(finalist)
by Fred Harris
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
OKLAHOMA BREEDING BIRD ATLAS (finalist)
by Dan L Reinking
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
WASHITA: THE U.S. ARMY AND THE SOUTHERN CHEYENNE, 1867 - 1869 (finalist)
by Jerome Greene
Spur Award—Best First Novel—Western Writers of America
FIELD OF HONOR: A NOVEL
by D.L. Birchfield
Spur Award—Best Western Novel—Western Writers of America
WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN: A NOVEL (finalist)
by Sanora Babb
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction—Western Writers of America
DREAMS TO DUST
by Sheldon Russell
2006 Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction—Langum Project for Historical Literature
DREAMS TO DUST
by Sheldon Russell
Outstanding Academic Title—Choice Magazine
PARTY WARS (finalist)
by Barbara Sinclair
Westerners Co-Founders Best Book Award—Westerners International
WASHITA: THE U.S. ARMY AND THE SOUTHERN CHEYENNE, 1867 - 1869 (finalist)
by Jerome Greene
Best Publication—Oklahoma Museums Association
PEOPLES OF THE PLATEAU
by Steven L. Grafe
John M. Carroll Award—Book of the Year—Little Big Horn Associates
WHERE CUSTER FELL
by James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard
G. Joseph Sills Award (Best Book of the Year)—Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association
WHERE CUSTER FELL
by James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard
Best Western Lawman—Outlaw Book of the Year—National Outlaw-Lawmen Association (NOLA)
A DECENT, ORDERLY LYNCHING
by Frederick Allen
Caroline Bancroft Prize—Denver Public Library
CONQUEST OF TEXAS (finalist)
by Gary Clayton Anderson
Outstanding Book in Non-Profit and Voluntary Action Research—Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
DIMINISHED DEMOCRACY (finalist)
by Theda Skocpol
Latino Book Awards—Best Biography—Latino Literacy Now
CONFESSIONS OF A BERLITZ-TAPE CHICANA
by Demetria Martinez
Spur Award—Best Novel of the West—Western Writers of America
HIGH COUNTRY
by Willard Wyman
Spur Award – Best First Novel – Western Writers of America
HIGH COUNTRY
by Willard Wyman
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: A HISTORY VOLUME 1 1890-1917 (finalist)
by David. W. Levy
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
THE CHUCKWAGON COOKBOOK (finalist)
by B. Byron Price
Oklahoma Book Award—Design/Illustration—Oklahoma Center for the Book
A WESTERN LEGACY: THE NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM (finalist)
Designed by John Hubbard, Photography by Ed Muno
Oklahoma Book Award—Design/Illustration—Oklahoma Center for the Book
THE FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: SELECTED WORKS (finalist)
Designed by John Hubbard
Fiction—Literary—ForeWord Magazine
CONFESSIONS OF A BERLITZ-TAPE CHICANA
by Demetria Martinez
NYMAS Civil War Book Award—New York Military Affairs Symposium
THE CIVIL WAR IN ARIZONA
By Andrew E. Masich
Southwest Book of the Year—Pima County Public Library
THE CIVIL WAR IN ARIZONA
By Andrew E. Masich
Southwest Book Award — Border Regional Library Association
THE CIVIL WAR IN ARIZONA
By Andrew E. Masich
Distinguished Writing Award—Army Historical Foundation
THE UNCIVIL WAR: IRREGULAR WARFARE IN THE UPPER SOUTH, 1861 - 1865 (finalist)
by Robert R. Mackey
ForeWord Magazine—Book of the Year Award—Literary Fiction
WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN: A NOVEL (finalist)
by Sanora Babb
Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award—Historical Society of New Mexico
INVENTING LOS ALAMOS: THE GROWTH OF AN ATOMIC COMMUNITY
by Jon Hunner
Oklahoma Book Award—Fiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
FOLLOWING THE HARVEST: A NOVEL
by Fred Harris (finalist)
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
OKLAHOMA BREEDING BIRD ATLAS (finalist)
by Dan L Reinking
Oklahoma Book Award—Nonfiction—Oklahoma Center for the Book
WASHITA: THE U.S. ARMY AND THE SOUTHERN CHEYENNE, 1867 - 1869 (finalist)
by Jerome Greene
Spur Award—Best First Novel—Western Writers of America
by D.L. Birchfield
Spur Award—Best Western Novel—Western Writers of America
WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN: A NOVEL (finalist)
by Sanora Babb
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction—Western Writers of America
WASHITA: THE U.S. ARMY AND THE SOUTHERN CHEYENNE, 1867 - 1869 (finalist)
by Jerome Greene
2005 Distinguished Writing Award—Army Historical Foundation
BLOOD IN THE ARGONNE: THE "LOST" BATTALION OF WORLD WAR I (finalist)
by Alan J. Gaff
Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
NATIVE AMERICAN PLACENAMES OF THE UNITED STATES
by William Bright
Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
THE DEMOCRATIC CENTURY
by Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason M. Lakin
Best Book Award—Utah State Historical Society
UTAH HISTORIANS AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WESTERN HISTORY
by Gary Topping
Best Publisher of Western Nonfiction—True West magazine
University of Oklahoma Press
Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO)—Western History Association
INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT: CONGRESSES AND BILLS
by Vine Deloria Jr.
Robert M. Utley Award—Western History Association
MORNING STAR DAWN: THE POWDER RIVER EXPEDITION AND THE NORTHERN CHEYENNES, 1876
by Jerome A. Greene
Eliza Atkins Gleason Award—Library History Round Table—American Library Association
THE DISMISSAL OF MISS RUTH BROWN: CIVIL RIGHTS, CENSORSHIP, AND THE AMERICAN LIBRARY
by Louis S. Robbins
2003 Book of the Year—Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction—ForeWord Magazine
CROSSING VINES: A NOVEL
by Rigoberto Gonzalez
Writer of the Year—Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
FIELD OF HONOR: A NOVEL
by D.L. Birchfield
El Premio Nacional "Aquileo J. Echeverria en Historia—Costa Rica Ministry of Culture, 2003
HISTORICAL ATLAS OF CENTRAL AMERICA
by Carolyn Hall and Hector Perez Brignoli
2003 Distinguished Book Award—Army Historical Foundation
SOLDIER, SURGEON, SCHOLAR: The Memoirs of William Henry Corbusier
edited by Robert Wooster (finalist)
2003 Distinguished Book Award—Army Historical Foundation
MORNING STAR DAWN: THE POWDER RIVER EXPEDITION AND THE NORTHERN CHEYENNES, 1876
by Jerome A. Greene (finalist)
2003 Nathan Bedford Forrest History Award—Forrest Cavalry Corps
SAM HOUSTON
by James L. Haley
Oklahoma Book Award—Directors' Award—Oklahoma Center for the Book
DAYS WE DANCED: THE STORY OF MY THEATRICAL FAMILY FROM FLORENZ ZIEGFELD TO ARTHUR MURRAY AND BEYOND
by Doris Eaton Travis
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
DAYS WE DANCED: THE STORY OF MY THEATRICAL FAMILY FROM FLORENZ ZIEGFELD TO ARTHUR MURRAY AND BEYOND
by Doris Eaton Travis
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
OKLAHOMA TOUGH: MY FATHER, KING OF THE TULSA BOOTLEGGERS (finalist)
by Ron Padgett
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
ONE WOMAN'S POLITICAL JOURNEY: KATE BARNARD AND SOCIAL REFORM, 1875 – 1930 (finalist)
by Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
TAKING INDIAN LANDS: THE CHEROKEE (JEROME) COMMISSION, 1889 – 1893 (finalist)
by William T. Hagan
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction Biography—Western Writers of America
ON A SILVER DESERT: THE LIFE OF ERNEST HAYCOX
by Ernest Haycox Jr.
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction Biography—Western Writers of America
WILLIAM S. HART: PROJECTING THE AMERICAN WEST (finalist)
by Ronald L. Davis
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction Historical—Western Writers of America
MORNING STAR DAWN: THE POWDER RIVER EXPEDITION AND THE NORTHERN CHEYENNES, 1876 (finalist)
by Jerome A. Greene
Voice of Inclusion—American College Personnel Association
WHITE AWARENESS: HANDBOOK FOR ANTI-RACISM TRAINING, Second Edition
by Judith H. Katz
Francis Makemie Award—Presbyterian Historical Society
CREATING CHRISTIAN INDIANS: NATIVE CLERGY IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
by Bonnie Sue Lewis
Caroline Bancroft History Prize—Devner Public Library
BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS: BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE MASSACRE AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
by Will Bagley
Caughey Prize—Western History Association
BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS: BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE MASSACRE AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
by Will Bagley
Award of Merit—Philosophical Society of Texas
SAM HOUSTON
by James Haley
Robert M. Utley Prize—Western History Association
THE BLACK REGULARS
by William Dobak and Thomas Phillips
Outstanding Academic Title—Choice Magazine
BOUND FOR SANTA FE: THE ROAD TO NEW MEXICO AND THE AMERICAN CONQUEST, 1806-1848
by Stephen Hyslop
CHIEF DANIEL BREAD AND THE ONEIDA NATION OF INDIANS OF WISCONSIN
by Laurence M. Hauptman and Gordon McLester
Smith-Petit Best Book Award—John Whitmer Historical Association
BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS: BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE MASSACRE AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
by Will Bagley
Best Book Award—Westerners International
BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS: BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE MASSACRE AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
by Will Bagley
WILLA Literary Award—Nonfiction—Women Writing the West
MARY HALLOCK FOOTE: AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR OF THE AMERICAN WEST (finalist)
by Darlis A. Miller
Clio Award (Prairies Region)—Canadian Historical Association
COMMON AND CONTESTED GROUND: A HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHWESTERN PLAINS
by Theodore Binnema
Literary Award—International Napoleonic Society
NAPOLEON AND BERLIN: THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR IN NORTHERN GERMANY, 1813
by Michael V. Leggiere
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Fiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
MASK MAKER: A NOVEL
by Diane Glancy
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
TE ATA: CHICKASAW STORYTELLER, AMERICAN TREASURE (finalist)
by Richard Green
T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award—Texas Historical Commission
SAM HOUSTON
by James L. Haley
Deolece Parmelee Award—Texas Historical Foundation
SAM HOUSTON
by James L. Haley
Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize—Texas State Historical Association
SAM HOUSTON
by James L. Haley
Citation Award—San Antonio Conservation Society
SAM HOUSTON
by James L. Haley
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction Biography—Western Writers of America
SAM HOUSTON
by James L. Haley
Spur Award—Best Western Nonfiction (Historical)—Western Writers of America
BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS: BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE MASSACRE AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
by Will Bagley
BOUND FOR SANTA FE: THE ROAD TO NEW MEXICO AND THE AMERICAN CONQUEST, 1806-1848 (finalist)
by Stephen G. Hyslop
Texas Old Missions and Restoration Association Book Award—Texas Catholic Historical Society
SPAIN IN THE SOUTHWEST: A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF COLONIAL NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, TEXAS, AND CALIFORNIA
by John L. Kessell
Presidio La Bahia Award—Sons of the Republic of Texas
SPAIN IN THE SOUTHWEST: A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF COLONIAL NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, TEXAS, AND CALIFORNIA (second place)
by John L. Kessell
Caroline Bancroft Western History Prize—Denver Public Library
NATURAL WEST: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY IN THE GREAT PLAINS AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS (honor book)
by Dan L. Flores
FORT UNION AND THE UPPER MISSOURI FUR TRADE
by Barton H. Barbour (Honor Book)
GENERAL CROOK AND THE WESTERN FRONTIER (finalist)
by Charles M. Robinson, III
Outstanding Academic Title—Choice Magazine
TO BE INDIAN: THE LIFE OF IROQUOIS-SENECA ARTHUR CASWELL PARKER
by Joy Porter
ORIGINS: THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINENTS, OCEANS AND LIFE
by Ron Redfern
UNEVEN GROUND: AMERICAN INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND FEDERAL LAW
by David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima
Journalism Award—American Association of Petroleum Geologists
ORIGINS: THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINENTS, OCEANS AND LIFE
by Ron Redfern
Connecticut Book Awards—Nonfiction—Connecticut Center for the Book
STICKS, STONES AND SHADOWS: BUILDING THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS (finalist)
by Martin Isler
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
GIFTS OF PRIDE AND LOVE: KIOWA AND COMANCHE CRADLES (finalist)
edited by Barbara Hail
LETTERS FROM THE DUST BOWL (finalist)
by Caroline Henderson, edited by Alvin O. Turner
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Illustrated Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
GIFTS OF PRIDE AND LOVE: KIOWA AND COMANCHE CRADLES (finalist)
edited by Barbara Hail
TRAVELING ROUTE 66 (finalist)
by Nick Freeth
Best Book on Oklahoma History—Oklahoma Historical Society
ANGIE DEBO: PIONEERING HISTORIAN
by Shirley A. Leckie
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
CONTRARY NEIGHBORS: SOUTHERN PLAINS AND REMOVED INDIANS IN INDIAN TERRITORY
by David La Vere
ANGIE DEBO: PIONEERING HISTORIAN (finalist)
by Shirley A. Leckie
THE DISMISSAL OF MISS RUTH BROWN: CIVIL RIGHTS, CENSORSHIP, AND THE AMERICAN LIBRARY (finalist)
by Louise S. Robbins
INDIAN GAMING: TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY AND AMERICAN POLITICS (finalist)
by W. Dale Mason
WALTZING WITH THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD: POVERTY, MYTH, AND LOW-WAGE LABOR IN OKLAHOMA
by Robert Lee Maril (finalist)
Jay D. Smith Literary Award—Little Big Horn Associates
CUSTER IN '76: WALTER CAMP'S NOTES ON THE CUSTER FIGHT
edited by Kenneth Hammer
Outstanding Academic Book—Choice Magazine
DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN INDIAN DIPLOMACY: TREATIES, AGREEMENTS AND CONVENTIONS, 1775 – 1979
edited by Vine Deloria, Jr., and Raymond J. DeMallie
Peace and Friendship Award—Washington State Historical Society
A LITTLE BIT OF WISDOM: CONVERSATIONS WITH A NEZ PERCE ELDER
by Horace Axtell and Margo Aragon
T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award—Texas Historical Commission
THE TEXAS SHERIFF: LORD OF THE COUNTY LINE
by Thad Sitton
Thomas J. Lyon Book Award—Western Literature Association
BRET HARTE: OPENING THE AMERICAN LITERARY WEST
by Gary Scharnhorst
Willa Literary Award for Nonfiction—Women Writing the West
THE DISMISSAL OF MISS RUTH BROWN: CIVIL RIGHTS, CENSORSHIP, AND THE AMERICAN LIBRARY
by Louise S. Robbins
ANGIE DEBO: PIONEERING HISTORIAN (finalist)
by Shirley A. Leckie
Best Book on Oklahoma History—Oklahoma Historical Society
AGRARIAN SOCIALISM IN AMERICA: MARX, JEFFERSON, AND JESUS IN THE OKLAHOMA COUNTRYSIDE 1904 – 192
by Jim Bissett0
Best Nonfiction Book—Nebraska Center for the Book
THE FRONTIER ARMY IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST
by Michael L. Tate
Spur Award—John C. Ewers Award—Western History Association
THE GREAT LAW AND THE LONGHOUSE: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY
by William N. Fenton
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Fiction Book—Oklahoma Center For the Book
THE VOICE THAT WAS IN TRAVEL (finalist)
by Diane Glancy
Oklahoma Book Award—Best Nonfiction Book—Oklahoma Center for the Book
AGRARIAN SOCIALISM IN AMERICA: MARX, JEFFERSON, AND JESUS IN THE OKLAHOMA COUNTRYSIDE 1904 – 1920 (finalist)
by Jim Bissett
GEORGE WASHINGTON GRAYSON AND THE CREEK NATION, 1843 – 1920 (finalist)
by Mary Jane Warde
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Award—American Political Science Association
VOICES FROM EXILE: VIOLENCE AND SURVIVAL IN MODERN MAYA HISTORY
by Victor Montejo
Spur Award—Best Novel of the West—Western Writers of America
DARK RIVER: A NOVEL (finalist)
by Louis Owens