Ray Allen Billington Prize

Given by Organization of American Historians (OAH)

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The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book about American frontier history, which is defined broadly to include show more the pioneer periods of all geographical areas, and comparisons between American frontiers and others. Ray Allen Billington was president of the OAH 1962-1963.
The prize was not given in 1997. show less
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All, 2023 (1), 2021 (1), 2019 (1), 2017 (1), 2015 (1), 2013 (1), 2011 (1), 2009 (1), 2007 (1), 2005 (1), 2003 (1), 2001 (1), 1999 (2), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1991 (1), 1989 (1), 1987 (1), 1985 (1), 1983 (1), 1981 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (America in the Nineteenth Century) by Paul Conrad
2023
Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Jeffrey Ostler
2021
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams
2019
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby
2017
Trees in Paradise: A California History by Jared Farmer
2015
Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past by Peter Boag
2013
The Father of All: The de la Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California (Western Histories) by Louise Pubols
2011
Emerald City : An Environmental History of Seattle by Matthew Klingle
2009
Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Pablo Mitchell
2007
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway
2005
Print the Legend: Photography and the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss
2003
Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 by Gunther Peck
2001
Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
co-winner1999
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West
co-winner1999
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos
1995
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter
1993
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California by James N. Gregory
1991
Indian Survival on the California Frontier by Albert L. Hurtado
1989
Phil Sheridan and His Army by Paul Andrew Hutton
1987
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians by Francis Paul Prucha
1985
The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico by David J. Weber
1983
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 by John D. Unruh
1981

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