Western Heritage AwardNon-Fiction Book

Given by National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Other Names: National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award
55 Works 9,119 Books 232 Reviews 4.1
Awarded by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Literary awards are made in the following categories:
* Art books (1968- )
* Folklore books (1978)
* Juvenile books (1962- )
* Magazine article show more (1961- )
* Non-fiction books (1962- )
* Photography book (2005- )
* Poetry book (1973- )
* Short stories (1961- )
* Western novel (1962- )
Western Heritage Award winners website
Folklore Books
Only awarded in 1978
Non-Fiction Books:
1969: two awards made
1974: four awards made
1975: four awards made
1976: Two awards made
1977: no award listed
1978: two awards made
1981-1983: two awards made
Poetry
1974-1985: no awards listed show less
Categories:
All, Art Book (12), Folklore (1), Non-Fiction (1), Non-Fiction Book (55), Non-fiction book (1), Nonfiction book (1), Photography (2), Photography Book (4), Poetry (5), Western Novel (50), No Category (3)
Years:
All, 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (2), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (2), 1976 (2), 1975 (4), 1974 (2), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (2), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1)
WorkYear
So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 (Overland West) by Will Bagley
2011
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story by Elliott West
2010
For the Love of a Horse by Max Evans
2008
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
2007
Charlie Siringo's West by Howard R. Lamar
2006
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga by David Dary
2005
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 by Sally Denton
2004
Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy by Douglas B. Green
2003
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch by Dan O'Brien
2002
The American West: A New Interpretive History by Robert V. Hine
2001
The Real Wild West by Michael Wallis
2000
The New Encyclopedia of the American West by Howard R. Lamar
1999
The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America by Louis S. Warren
1998
Re-imagining the Modern American West by Richard W. Etulain
1997
The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains by Elliott West
1996
The Oxford History of the American West by Clyde A. Milner
1995
The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber
1993
"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West by Richard White
1992
Cowboys of the Americas by Richard W. Slatta
1991
Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier by Elliott West
1990
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and The Western Military Frontier by Robert M. Utley
1989
High Noon in Lincoln by Robert M. Utley
1988
The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America by Robert G. Athearn
1987
Bob Sharp's Cattle Country: Rawhide Ranching on Both Sides of the Border by Robert L. Sharp
1986
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians by Francis Paul Prucha
1985
North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation by Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
1984
A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Sharlot Hall by Margaret F. Maxwell
1983
A Will Rogers Treasury by Bryan B. Sterling
1983
Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries by David Dary
1982
Gold Dust by Donald Dale Jackson
1981
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 by John D. Unruh
1980
Buffalo Bill, His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes by Nellie Snyder Yost
1979
Geronimo : the man, his time, his place by Angie Debo
1978
Tim McCoy Remembers the West by Tim McCoy
1978
Fifty Great Western Illustrators: A Bibliographic Checklist [ILLUSTRATED] by Jeff Dykes
1976
Charles F. Lummis, The Man and his West by TurbeseĢ Lummis Fiske
1976
Idaho by Robert O. Beatty
1975
The Warren Wagontrain Raid by Benjamin Capps
1975
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket by C. L. Sonnichsen
1975
Born Grown by Roy P. Stewart
1975
Owyhee Trails: The West's Forgotten Corner by Mike Hanley
1974
Will Rogers, His Life and Times by Richard M. Ketchum
1974
The Time of the Buffalo by Tom McHugh
1973
North America Divided: Mexican War, 1846-48 by Seymour V. Connor
1972
The Great Range Wars: Violence on the Grasslands (Bison Book) by Harry Sinclair Drago
1971
The Great Platte River Road by Merrill J. Mattes
1970
The Cattle Towns by Robert R. Dykstra
1969
The Enduring Navaho by Laura Gilpin
1969
America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West by John Arkas Hawgood
1968
Gold Fever by George W. Groh
1967
The American Heritage History of the Great West by David Lavender
1966
Standing Up Country by C. Gregory Crampton
1965
Furs by Astor by John Upton Terrell
1964
Where the Old West Stayed Young by John Rolfe Burroughs
1963
The American Heritage Book of Indians by William Brandon
1962

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