Spur Award - Historical Novel (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

2024

Death In The Tallgrass
(Winner)
Donald Willerton

Golddigger
(Finalist)
Kathleen Morris

The Redemption of Mattie Silks
(Finalist)
Kimberly Burns

2023

Properties of Thirst
(Winner)
Marianne Wiggins

Pony Boys
(Finalist)
Richard Prosch

Justice for All: The Search for Big Poker Tom
(Finalist)
Wayne E. Purcell

2022

Ridgeline
(Winner )
Michael Punke

The Healing of Natalie Curtis
(Finalist)
Jane Kirkpatrick

Last Comanche Warrior
(Finalist)
James D. Crownover

2021

All Things Left Wild
(Winner )
James Wade

Stardust Trail
(Finalist)
J.R. Sanders
  • / Mystery

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves
(Finalist)
Sidney Thompson

2020

A Forgotten Evil
(Winner )
Sheldon Russell

The Glovemaker
(Finalist)
Ann Weisgarber

Cut Nose
(Finalist)
Ron Schwab

2019

River of Porcupines
(Winner )
G.K. Aalborg

Line of Glory
(Finalist)
Thomas D. Clagett

The Long Shadow
(Finalist)
Beth Kanell

This Scorched Earth
(Finalist)
W. Michael Gear

2018

The Coming
(Winner)
David Osborne

Copper Sky
(Finalist)
Milana Marsenich

Moon Hunt
(Finalist)
Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

2016

Paradise Sky
(Winner)
Joe R. Lansdale

Playing Custer
(Finalist)
Gerald Duff

The Memory Weaver
(Finalist)
Jane Kirkpatrick

2015

Wild Ran the Rivers
(Winner)
James D. Crownover

Backlands
(Finalist)
Michael McGarrity

A Light in the Wilderness
(Finalist)
Jane Kirkpatrick

2014

Silent We Stood
(Winner)
Henry Chappell

Greasy Grass
(Finalist)
Johnny D. Boggs

The Promise
(Finalist)
Ann Weisgarber

1987

Wanderer Springs
(Winner)
Robert Flynn

1986

Roman
(Winner)
Douglas C. Jones

1985

The Snowblind Moon
(Winner)
John Byrne Cook

1984

Gone the Dreams and Dancing
(Winner)
Douglas C. Jones

1983

Sam Bass
(Winner)
Bryan Woolley

1982

Ride the Wind
(Winner)
Lucia St. Clair Robson

1981

Aces and Eights
(Winner)
Loren D. Estleman

1977

Swimming Man Burning
(Winner)
Terrence Kilpatrick

1976

The Kincaids
(Winner)
Matt Braun

1972

Chiricahua
(Winner)
Will Henry

1969

The White Man's Road
(Winner)
Benjamin Capps

1968

The Red Sabbath
(Winner)
Lewis B. Patten

1967

The Wolf Is My Brother
(Winner)
Chad Oliver

1966

Hellfire Jackson
(Winner)
Garland Roark; Charles Thomas

1965

Gold in California!
(Winner)
Todhunter Ballard

1964

Indian Fighter
(Winner)
F.F. Halloran

1963

Gates of the Mountains
(Winner)
Will Henry

1962

Moon Trap
(Winner)
Don Berry

1961

The Winter War
(Winner)
William Wister Haines

1960

From Where the Sun Now Stands
(Winner)
Will Henry

1959

The Buffalo Soldiers
(Winner)
John Prebble

1958

The Fancher Train
(Winner)
Amelia Bean
  • / Historical Romance

1957

The Silver Mountain
(Winner)
Dan Cushman

1956

Generations of Men
(Winner)
John Clinton Hunt

1954

Journey by the River
(Winner)
John Prescott

1953

The Wheel and the Hearth
(Winner)
Lucia Moore

Award Categories

Children's Picture Book

Children-Y/A Fiction

Contemporary Novel

First Novel

Historical Novel

Juvenile Fiction

Long Novel

Mass Market Paperback Novel

Medicine Pipe Bearer (First Novel)

Novel of the West

Romance Novel

Short Novel

Short Story

Storyteller

Traditional Novel

Western Juv Fic

Western Long Novel

Western Novel

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