| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2009 |
|
Susan K. Salzer |
Cornflower Blue |
| 2008 |
|
Marcia Muller |
Crucifixion River |
| 2007 |
|
Dusty Richards |
Comanche Moon |
| 2007 |
|
Dusty Richards |
Comanche Moon |
| 2006 |
|
Lori Van Pelt |
Pecker's Revenge |
| 2005 |
|
Larry D. Sweazy |
The Promotion |
| 2004 |
|
Andrew Geyer |
Second Coming |
| 2003 |
|
Jimbo Brewer |
The Old Man |
| 2002 |
|
Johnny D. Boggs |
A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing |
| 2001 |
|
Gary Svee |
All or Nothing |
| 2000 |
|
David Marion Wilkinson |
Opening Day |
| 1999 |
|
Allen P Bristow |
Secrets of the Lost Cannon |
| 1998 |
|
Judy Alter |
Sue Ellen Learns to Dance and Other Stories |
| 1996 |
|
Loren D. Estleman |
|
| 1995 |
|
Jane Candia Coleman |
Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana? |
| 1994 |
|
Sandra Whiting |
Charity |
| 1993 |
|
Suzann Ledbetter |
Nellie Cashman, prospector and trailblazer |
| 1993 |
|
Jane Candia Coleman |
Lou |
| 1992 |
|
Edward Gorman |
The Face |
| 1991 |
|
Benjamin Capps |
Cimarron, The Killer |
| 1990 |
|
Joyce Gibson Roach |
Just As I Am |
| 1989 |
|
Harry W. Paige |
The Indian Summer of Nancy Redwing |
| 1988 |
|
Robert J. Conley |
Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography |
| 1987 |
|
Max Evans |
The Orange County Cowboys |
| 1986 |
|
Loren D. Estleman |
The Bandit |
| 1985 |
|
Bill Brett |
The Way It Was Told to Me |
| 1984 |
|
Paul Saint Pierre |
Sale of One Small Ranch |
| 1983 |
|
William F. Bragg, Jr. |
The Ten Sleep Mail |
| 1982 |
|
Oakley Hall |
Horseman |
| 1981 |
|
Carla Kelly |
Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter |
| 1980 |
|
Wayne Barton |
One Man's Code |
| 1979 |
|
James Bellah |
Jason Glendauer's Watch |
| 1978 |
|
Carla Kelly |
A Season for Heroes |
| 1977 |
|
John L Sinclair |
Where the Cowboys Hunkered Down |
| 1976 |
|
C. L. Sonnichsen |
Jonathan Gilliam & The White Man's Burden |
| 1975 |
|
Donald Emmet Worcester |
Apaches in the History of the Southwest |
| 1974 |
|
Robert Laxalt |
The Other Nevadan |
| 1974 |
|
Eve Ball |
Buried Money |
| 1973 |
|
John Harrell |
The Comancheros |
| 1972 |
|
Harry F. Webb |
Call of the Cow Country? |
| 1971 |
|
Earl Clark |
Shootout in Burke Canyon |
| 1970 |
|
Peggy Simson Curry |
In the Silence |
| 1969 |
|
Cliff Farrell |
Westward to Blood and Glory |
| 1968 |
|
Fred Grove |
When the Caballos Came |
| 1967 |
|
Donald Hamilton |
The Guns of William Longley |
| 1966 |
|
S. Omar Barker |
Empty Saddles at Christmas |
| 1965 |
|
Will Henry |
Tallest Indian in Toltepec |
| 1964 |
|
Lola Shelton |
Log Studio of C.M. Russell |
| 1963 |
|
Fred Grove |
Comanche Woman |
| 1962 |
|
Will Henry |
Isley's Stranger |
| 1961 |
|
John Prebble |
A Town Named Hate |
| 1960 |
|
Bill Gulick |
The shaming of Broken Horn |
| 1959 |
|
Noel M. Loomis |
Grandfather Out of the Past |
| 1958 |
|
Bill Gulick |
Thief in Camp |
| 1957 |
|
Peggy Simson Curry |
The Brushoff |
| 1956 |
|
Dorothy M. Johnson |
Lost Sister |
| 1955 |
|
S. Omar Barker |
Bad Company |
| 1954 |
|
Thomas Thompson |
Blood on the Sun |
| 1953 |
|
Thomas Thompson |
Gun Job |
