Spur AwardWinnerNonfiction

Given by Western Writers of America Inc. (WWA)

Otros Nombres: Golden Spur Award (Inglés)
37 Obras 3,319 Libros 37 Reseñas ½ 4.0
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 mostrar más 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. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (435), Finalist (236)
Categorias:
Todos, No-ficción (37)
Years:
Todos, 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

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

Descripciones

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, Award granter)
URL: https://westernwriters.org/spur-awards/
Lists of Spur Award winners are at:
http://westernwriters.org/winners/ (English, Escritos por miembros)

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