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- 2006
- Willard Wyman. High Country: A Novel
- The packer's business is guiding mule trains into mountains where wagons can't travel. It's a life of danger, long days, and low pay. But for those wedded to the wilderness and inaccessible high country, it is the only life there is.During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family's failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, a legend in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide.
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- 2005
- Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear. People of the Raven
- In the newest installment of the bestselling Prehistoric North America series, a beautiful red-haired woman stumbles into the council lodge and begs Rain Bear and his struggling Raven People for sanctuary.
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- 2004
- Win Blevins. So Wild A Dream
- An authority on the fur trade era of the American West, Blevins opens his Rendezvous series with fur-trapper Sam Morgan's journey into the dangerous upper Missouri River country with a brigade of trappers to complete the first phase of his mountain education.
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- 2003
- Debra Magpie Earling. Perma Red
- Louise White Elk dreams of both belonging and escape, and of discovering love and freedom on her own terms. "Perma Red" is a love-crossed saga about a young woman coming of age under perilous circumstances, and about the consequences of her often contradictory desires.
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- 2002
- Brady Udall. The Miracle of Life of Edgar Mint
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- 2001
- Stephen Harrigan. The Gates of the Alamo
- This full-scale novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo weaves in a love story between an American naturalist and a widow innkeeper who, along with her 16-year-old son, get swept up in the harrowing events of the heroic battle.
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- 2000
- Ellen Recknor. Prophet Annie
- Annie's wedding night is remarkable! One minute she's just arrived from the Arizona Territory for her arranged marriage, and the next, her much older husband dies leaving Annie broke and the sole support of his two elderly relatives. But when his ghost takes up residence in Annie's body, she earns a reputation as a seer and soon is sharing Jonah's psychic "hints" with the public. Now a celebrity, even Annie cannot foresee the adventures and fulfillment that the future holds for her...
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- 1999
- Jane Smiley. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
- The memoirs of a woman who marries an abolitionist from New England and with him settles in Kansas in the fateful year of 1855 to help ensure that the territory will enter the Union as a free state.
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- 1998
- Larry McMurtry. Comanche Moon
- Here we find Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call struggling to protect the Western frontier against the defiant Comanches, who are determined to defend their way of life.
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- 1997
- "For promotional purposes, the WWA Executive Board in 1997 voted to redesignate the Spur Awards to reflect the year the award is presented rather than the year the work was published."
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- 1996
- Richard S. Wheeler. Sierra
- The acclaimed author of Goldfield and Cashbox now recreates one of the pivotal events in Western American history--the great, gaudy, gold stampede to California in 1848-49--and weaves into this glittering backdrop the stories of two unlikely gold seekers.
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- 1995
- Win Blevins. Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse
- Crazy Horse, the enigmatic Lakota Sioux best known for his role in defeating Custer at Little Big Horn, is eulogized in a fictional account.
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- 1994
- Elmer Kelton. The Far Canyon
- A sequel to the Spur Award-winning Slaughter finds hunter Jeff Layne returning to Texas to find himself caught up in a border war, and his old enemy Comanche Crow Feather trying to escape with his family from reservation life.
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- 1993
- Jeff Long. Empire of Bones
- A compelling fictional account of the battle and the man that changed the history of Texas. A novel of Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution.
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- 1992
- Elmer Kelton. Slaughter
- As white buffalo hunters slaughter huge herds of bison and the Comanche nation fights back with strength and guile, a cast of rugged characters braves the rugged frontier.
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- 1991
- Jory Sherman. The Medicine Horn
- From the southern frontier to the busy streets of St. Louis, Lem Hawke, the greatest of the Big Sky Mountain Men, lives, loves, and fights hard.
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- 1990
- Jeanne Williams. Home Mountain
- A proud orphaned beauty, Katie flees heartbreak in Texas to the Arizona mountains where she falls in love with a gunslinger and is pursued by a powerful rancher.
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- 1989
- James Alexander Thom. Panther in the Sky
- Tecumseh was born under a shooting star, a portent of greatness. His father and older brothers died fighting white encroachment onto Indian lands, and he became the leader of younger and more dissident elements of many tribes in order to fight white seizure of their lands.
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- 1988
- Glendon Swarthout. The Homesman
- After venturing west of the Missouri to stake claims in uncharted territory, a number of settlers find the earth fallow and the desolate, lonely winters unbearable. When four of the wives go mad, the local minister entrusts a prim, strong-willed young schoolmarm, Mary Bee Cuddy, to transport them back to Iowa by covered wagon. With her, virtually against his will, is Briggs, a dishonest, foul-mouthed land-grabber (he steals other peoples' claims) whom Mary Bee saved from a lynching in exchange for his help.
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- 1987
- Robert Flynn. Wanderer Springs
- Oral historian Will Callahan returns to his hometown to chronicle its rural past and urban present.
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- 1986
- Douglas C. Jones. Roman
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- 1985
- John Byrne Cook. The Snowblind Moon
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- 1984
- Douglas C. Jones. Gone the Dreams and Dancing
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- 1983
- Brian Woolley. Sam Bass
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- 1982
- Lucia St. Clair. Robson. Ride the Wind
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- 1981
- Loren D. Estleman. Aces and Eights
- The story of the death of one of the West's greatest living legends--Wild Bill Hickok. While playing poker in Deadwood's Number 10 Saloon, Hickok was shot in the back by Jack McCall. Forever after, Hickok's poker hand of a pair of aces and a pair of eights has been known as the "Dead Man's Hand".
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- 1980
- No Award given
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- 1979
- No Award given
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- 1978
- No Award given
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- 1977
- Terrence Kilpatrick. Swimming Man Burning
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- 1976
- Matt Braun. The Kinkaids
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- 1975
- No Award given
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- 1974
- No Award given
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- 1973
- No Award given
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- 1972
- Will Henry. Chiricahua
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- 1971
- No Award given
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- 1970
- No Award given
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- 1969
- Benjamin Capps. The White Man's Road
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- 1968
- Lewis Patton. The Red Sabbath
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- 1967
- Chad Oliver. The Wolf Is My Brother
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- 1966
- Garland Roark and Charles Thomas. Hellfire Jackson
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- 1965
- Vardis Fisher. Mountain Man
- Tailored after the actual "Crow Killer" John Johnson, Sam Minard is a mountain man who seeks the freedom that the Rocky Mountains offers trappers. After his beloved Indian wife is murdered, Sam Minard becomes obsessed with vengeance, and his fortunes become intertwined with those of Kate Bowden, a widow who faces madness. This remarkable frontier fiction captures that brief season when the romantic myth of the far West became a fact.
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- 1965
- Todhunter Ballard. Gold in California
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- 1964
- E. E. Halloran. Indian Fighter
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- 1963
- Will Henry. Gates of the Mountains
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- 1962
- Don Berry. Moon Trap
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- 1961
- William Wister Haines. The Winter War
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- 1960
- Will Henry. From Where the Sun Now Stands
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- 1959
- John Prebble. The Buffalo Soldiers
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- 1958
- Amelia Bean. The Fancher Train
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- 1957
- Dan Cushman. Silver Mountain
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- 1956
- John Clinton Hunt. Generations of Men
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- 1955
- No Award given
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- 1954
- John Prescott. Journey By the River
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- 1953
- Lucia Moore. The Wheel and the Hearth
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