Awards & Winners

2007 Spur Award

Check winners and nominations of 2007 Spur Award. Check awards winners of 2007 Spur Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Spur Award for Best Short Fiction

Dusty Richards

Honored for : Comanche Moon
Spur Award for Best Novel of the West

Elizabeth Crook

Honored for : The night journal
Spur Award for Best Western Novel (Short Novel)

Tony Hillerman

Honored for : The Shape Shifter
Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel

Dusty Richards

Honored for : The Horse Creek incident
Spur Award for Best First Novel

Alan Geoffrion

Honored for : Broken Trail
Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Historical

Hampton Sides

Honored for : Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Contemporary

Dennis L. Swibold

Honored for : Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics and the Montana Press, 1889-1959
Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Biography

Kingsley M. Bray

Honored for : Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life
Spur Award for Best Short Fiction

Dusty Richards

Honored for : Comanche Moon
Spur Award for Best Short Nonfiction

Kerry Oman

Honored for : Forced into the Rockies: The Rise of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Era
Spur Award for Best Juvenile Fiction

Joseph Bruchac

Honored for : Geronimo
Spur Award for Best Juvenile Nonfiction

Jeff C. Young

Honored for : Bleeding Kansas and the violent clash over slavery in the heartland
Storyteller Award

Donald F. Montileaux

Honored for : Tatanka and the Lakota People
Spur Award for Best Poetry

Laurie Wagner Buyer

Honored for : Across the High Divide
Spur Award for Best Western Audiobook

Michael Johnson

Honored for : Healing Shine