Caroline Bancroft History Prize

Given by Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library

56 Works 3,798 Books 58 Reviews ½ 3.8
The Western History/Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library awards the Caroline Bancroft Prize annually. According to the terms of the will of the late Caroline Bancroft, provision is show more made for an annual prize “to be awarded to the author of the best book on Colorado or Western American History published during the current year, to be known as the Caroline Bancroft History Prize.”

The competition is open to all persons, whether connected with the Denver Public Library or not and whether citizens of the United States or any other country. “Colorado or Western American History” is defined geographically as being inclusive of the trans-Mississippi West from prehistoric times to the present. This includes all states west of the Mississippi River, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Canadian and Mexican borderlands. In defining the term “best book,” the staff of the Western History/Genealogy Department will consider books that make significant contribution to historical knowledge, that present thorough and original research, that bring a new perspective to some well-known question, and that are of a high literary quality. The winning book/author will be selected by employees of the Western History/Genealogy Department. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (27), Honor (19), Finalist (10)
Years:
All, 2020 (10), 2019 (1), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2010 (1), 2009 (2), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (3), 2001 (3), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (2), 1988 (1)

Winner 27

WorkYear
Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz2020
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams2019
After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics by Greg Robinson2013
Valentine T. McGillycuddy : Army surgeon, agent to the Sioux by Candy Moulton2012
The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants by Jane S. Smith2010
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews2009
Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 (Environmental History Series) by Sterling Evans2008
Norwegians on the Prairie: Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town by Odd S. Lovoll2007
Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier by Barbara Handy-Marchello2006
Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 by Richard Steven Street2005
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway2004
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley2003
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster2002
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865 by Peter Palmquist2001
Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans by Anthony F. C. Wallace2000
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West1999
Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination (Rural America) by Charles J. Shindo1998
Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tallgrass by Annick Smith1997
Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 by Patricia Trenton1996
Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768 (University of Arizona Southwest Center Book) by Harry W. Crosby1995
Trials and Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression, With Fsa Photographs by Stephen J. Leonard1994
The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber1993
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramón A. Gutiérrez1992
Thomas O. Larkin: A Life of Patriotism and Profit in Old California by Harlan Hague1991
A Story That Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West by Russell Martin1990
Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier by Elliott West1990
The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America by Robert G. Athearn1988

Honor 19

WorkYear
Wild Horse Annie: Velma Johnston and Her Fight to Save the Mustang by Alan J. Kania2013
The Allotment Plot: Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance by Nicole Tonkovich2013
In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West by Sue Fawn Chung2012
Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History by Julie Courtwright2012
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape by Jared Farmer2009
Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory by Christian W. McMillen2008
Frontiers Past And Future: Science Fiction And the American West by Carl Abbott2007
Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act by Mark Harvey2006
The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism by Robert W. Righter2006
Native American Picture Books of Change: The Art of Historic Childrens Editions by Rebecca C. Benes2005
The Nation's Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America by Peter J. Kastor2005
Bering: The Russian Discovery of America by Orcutt Frost2004
Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans by Benjamin Heber Johnson2004
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks2003
Diné: A History of the Navajos by Peter Iverson2003
Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade by Barton H. Barbour2002
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Dan Flores2002
William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West by Kevin J. Fernlund2001
American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture by Brian Roberts2001

Finalist 10

WorkYear
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax2020
Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (American Crossroads) by Genevieve Carpio2020
Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands by John Clayton2020
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America by Darren Dochuk2020
Sovereign schools : how Shoshones and Arapahos created a high school on the Wind River Reservation by Martha Louise Hipp2020
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee2020
Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State by Christopher P. Lehman2020
The Mormon Handcart Migration: "Tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow" by Candy Moulton2020
Starring Red Wing!: The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star by Linda M. Waggoner2020
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West) by Margot Mifflin

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