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| 2012 (Western Long Novel) |
| Remember Ben Clayton |
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Stephen Harrigan
Book list *Starred Review* Like the statue at its center, Harrigan's novel is a stunning work of art rest...More |
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| 2011 (Western Short Novel) |
| Snowbound |
Richard S. Wheeler
Book list John Charles Fremont (1813-90), the mathematics teacher, military man, presidential candidate, and ...More |
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| 2009 (Western Short Novel) |
| Another mans moccasins |
Craig Johnson.
Library Journal Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire (Kindness Goes Unpunished) flashes back to his Vietnam War exp...More |
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| 2009 (Western Long Novel) |
| Shavetail : a novel |
Thomas Cobb.
Library Journal A shavetail is a young mule paired with an older mule to learn its work. Brickner, who is as...More |
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| 2009 (Juvenile Fiction) |
| I am Apache |
Tanya Landman.
Book list Landman uses the tale of the woman who fought at the side of Geronimo as the kernel for her charact...More |
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| 2009 (Storyteller Award) |
| The wheat doll |
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Alison L. Randall ; illustrated by Bill Farnsworth.
Book list Based on events that took place in rural nineteenth-century Utah, this story should resonate with t...More |
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| 2007 (Young Readers) |
| Geronimo |
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Joseph Bruchac
Book list Gr. 7-10. While Bruchac's unnamed narrator is fictional, this novel of Geronimo, the great Chi...More |
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| 2006 (Western Novel - tie) |
| Camp Ford: A Western Story |
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Johnny D. Boggs
Book list In 1946 99-year-old Win McNaughton is an honored guest at a World Series game in St. Louis. He has...More |
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| 2006 (Western Novel - tie) |
| The Undertakers Wife |
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Loren D. Estleman
Publishers Weekly As in The Master Executioner, his 2001 tour de force, Estleman picks an unpopular professi...More |
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| 2006 (Novel of the West) |
| High Country: A Novel |
Willard Wyman
Library Journal Wyman's first novel tells the tale of Ty Hardin, a quiet young man who becomes a kind of...More |
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| 2006 (Young Readers) |
| Black Storm Comin |
Diane Lee Wilson
Book list Gr. 7-10. On a wagon train headed to California, Colton is left to care for his family after his f...More |
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| 2005 (Western Novel) |
| Buy the Chief a Cadillac |
Rick Steber
Publishers Weekly In 1954, the U.S. government, under the Indian Termination Act, "incorporated" a...More |
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| 2005 (Young Readers) |
| Fire in the Hole |
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Mary Cronk Farrell
Book list Gr. 5-8. Bookish Mick O'Shea dreams of college and a career in journalism; he has no desire to...More |
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| 2004 (Novel of the West) |
| So Wild A Dream |
Win Blevins
Book list Life in rural Pennsylvania in the 1820s doesn't hold much appeal for young, adventurous, ambit...More |
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| 2003 (Western Novel) |
| The Chili Queen |
Sandra Dallas
Book list The author tweaks the Western genre with her newest historical novel. Retired shortchange-artist-t...More |
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| 2003 (Novel of the West) |
| Perma Red |
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Debra Magpie Earling
Choice A Native American, Earling (English, Univ. of Montana) has written a remarkable first novel that riva...More |
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| 2003 (Young Readers) |
| The Big Burn |
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Jeanette Ingold
Publishers Weekly Ingold (Pictures, 1918) captures the momentum of a wildfire in this historical novel about...More |
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| 2002 (Best Western) |
| The Way of the Coyote |
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Elmer Kelton
Publishers Weekly As gratifying as a McMurtry side plot and with more gritty excitement than just about any ...More |
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| 2002 (Best Juvenile) |
| Rockbuster |
Gloria Skurzynski,
Book list Gr. 6-12. On a trip to watch the trial of union organizer Big Bill Haywood, 10-year-old Tommy acci...More |
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| 2001 (Western Novel) |
| Summer of Pearls |
Mike Blakley
Publishers Weekly Homespun western charm flavors Blakely's slim historical fiction about one of the many ...More |
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| 2001 (Novel of the West) |
| The Gates of the Alamo |
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Stephen Harrigan
Publishers Weekly Settling his fictional cast firmly at the heart of 19th-century Texas, novelist Harrigan (J...More |
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| 2000 (Western Novel) |
| Masterson |
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Richard S. Wheeler
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| 2000 (Novel of the West) |
| Prophet Annie |
Ellen Recknor
Publishers Weekly Spur Award-winner Recknor (Leaving Missouri) offers a daffy, highly original western told i...More |
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| 2000 (Best Juvenile) |
| Wrango |
Brian Burks
Book list Gr. 5^-8. Basing his story on the early years of African American cowboy George McJunkin, Burks spi...More |
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| 1999 (Western Novel) |
| Journey of the Dead |
Loren Estleman
School Library Journal YA-In this elegantly conceived western, Billy the Kid's death haunts his killer un...More |
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| 1999 (Best Juvenile) |
| Petey |
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Ben Mikaelson
School Library Journal Gr 7 Up-This ambitious book succeeds on a number of levels. It is based on a true, tra...More |
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| 1998 (Western Novel) |
| The Kiowa Verdict |
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Cynthia Haseloff
Publishers Weekly Mining a critical but little-known event in the history of relations between Native America...More |
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| 1998 (Novel of the West) |
| Comanche Moon |
Larry McMurtry
Book list At the conclusion of McMurtry's epic masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, Ranger Woodrow Call is haunted...More |
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| 1998 (Best Juvenile) |
| Danger Along the Ohio |
Patricia Willis
Book list Gr. 4^-7. When Shawnee Indians raid the settlement where their flatboat is moored, 13-year-old Amos...More |
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| 1996 (Novel of the West) |
| Sierra |
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Richard Wheeler
Library Journal Ulysses McQueen leaves his wife on the family farm in Iowa to seek his fortune in the Califor...More |
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| 1996 (Best Juvenile) |
| Far North |
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Will Hobbs
Book list Gr. 7^-12. After their plane and its pilot plunge over a thundering falls, 15-year-old Gabe, his De...More |
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