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Andere Namen: Golden Spur Award (Englisch)
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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 mehr anzeigen 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. weniger anzeigen
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Alle, Winner (435), Finalist (236)
Kategorien:
Alle, Sachbücher (37)
Jahre:
Alle, 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

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

Beschreibungen

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.

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