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, by John L. Kessell (Second Place)

Caroline Bancroft Western History Prize, Denver Public Library
NATURAL WEST: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, by Dan L. Flores (Honor Book)
FORT UNION AND THE UPPER MISSOURI FUR TRADE, by Barton H. Barbour (Honor Book)
GENERAL CROOK AND THE WESTERN FRONTIER, by Charles M. Robinson, III (one of six finalists)

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 (winner)
ANGIE DEBO: Pioneering Historian, by Shirley A. Leckie (finalist)
THE DISMISSAL OF MISS RUTH BROWN: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library, by Louise S. Robbins (finalist)
INDIAN GAMING: Tribal Sovereignty and American Politics, by W. Dale Mason (finalist)
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 (Given to a book of the past that has had an important and lasting impact on Custeriana.)

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 Non-Fiction, Women Writing the West
THE DISMISSAL OF MISS RUTH BROWN: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library, by Louise S. Robbins (winner)
ANGIE DEBO: Pioneering Historian, by Shirley A. Leckie (finalist)

Best Book on Oklahoma History, Oklahoma Historical Society
AGRARIAN SOCIALISM IN AMERICA: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside 1904 – 1920, by Jim Bissett

Best Nonfiction Book, Nebraska Center for the Book
THE FRONTIER ARMY IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST, by Michael L. Tate

John C. Ewers Award, Western History Association
THE GREAT LAW AND THE LONGHOUSE: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy, by William N. Fenton

Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Award, American Political Science Association
VOICES FROM EXILE: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History, by Victor Montejo

Spur Award for Best Novel of the West, Western Writers of America
DARK RIVER: A Novel, by Louis Owens (finalist)