Spur AwardNonfiction

Utdelare: Western Writers of America Inc. (WWA)

Andra namn: Golden Spur Award (engelska)
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Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most visa mer prestigious awards in American literature. Spurs are given for the best western historical novel, best western traditional novel, best western contemporary novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best drama, best documentary, best poem, best song, best children’s picture book and best first novel as well as best first nonfiction book. visa färre
Stadier:
Alla, Winner (435), Finalist (236)
Kategorier:
År:
Alla, 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1957 (1), 1956 (1), 1955 (1), 1954 (1)

Winner 37

VerkÅr
Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy av David Lavender1992
Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed av John S. Gray1991
Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy av Valerie Sherer Mathes1990
Great Plains av Ian Frazier1989
Hoover Dam: An American Adventure av Joseph E. Stevens1988
Jessie Benton Frémont : a biography av Pamela Herr1987
Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West av Joseph C. Porter1986
Phil Sheridan and His Army av Paul Andrew Hutton1985
Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes av Stella Hughes1984
Albuquerque: A narrative history av Marc Simmons1982
Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries av David Dary1981
The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyenne av Stan Hoig1980
The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest (Civilization of the American Indian Series) av Donald Emmet Worcester1979
Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: Society on the High Plains, 1832-1856 av Janet Lecompte1978
The Cowgirls av Joyce Gibson Roach1977
The vanishing white man av Stan Steiner1976
Lamy of Santa Fe av Paul Horgan1975
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket av C. L. Sonnichsen1974
Burnt-out Fires, California's Modoc Indian War av Richard H. Dillon1973
The Time of the Buffalo av Tom McHugh1972
Western life and adventures, 1889 to 1970, av Elliott Speer Barker1971
The Buffalo: The Story of American Bison and Their Hunters from Prehistoric Times to the Present av Francis D. Haines1970
Boss Cowman: The Recollections of Ed Lemmon, 1857-1946 av Ed Lemmon1969
Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West av Vardis Fisher1968
America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West av John Arkas Hawgood1967
America's Frontier Heritage av Ray Allen Billington1966
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest av Alvin M. Josephy Jr.1965
The Bonanza West: The Story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900 av William S. Greever1963
Great Surveys of the American West (American Exploration and Travel Series) av Richard A. Bartlett1962
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill av Don Russell1961
South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush av James Chisholm1960
The Day of San Jacinto av Frank X. Tolbert1959
Cripple Creek Days, A Nostalgic Reminiscence of the Last of the Great Gold Rush Towns av Mabel Barbee Lee1958
This is the West av Robert West Howard1957
Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900 av Irving Stone1956
Whoop-up country; the Canadian-American West, 1865-1885 av Paul F. Sharp1955
Bent's Fort av David Lavender1954

Beskrivningar

Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Spurs are given for the best western historical novel, best western traditional novel, best western contemporary novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best drama, best documentary, best poem, best song, best children’s picture book and best first novel as well as best first nonfiction book.

(English, Prisutdelare)
URL: https://westernwriters.org/spur-awards/
Lists of Spur Award winners are at:
http://westernwriters.org/winners/ (English, Medlemsbidrag)

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