Award Colorado Book Award

Wallace Stegner Award (2012)

John Dos Passos Prize (2006)

National Book Award finalist (1999)

Whiting Writers' Award (1986)

Maria Thomas Award in fiction (1991)

Evil Companions Literary Award (2002)

Lange-Taylor Prize (2005)

PEN/Hemingway Foundation Special Citation (1985)

Best Book Award (Cultural Anthropology, 2006)

Eric Hoffer Award (Social Anthropology, 2006)

Western Heritage Award (2025)

Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award (2023)

Silver Nautilus Book Award (2022)