Caughey Western History Association Prize

The Caughey Western History Association Prize is given annually by the Western History Association to the best book published the previous year on the American West. The winner receives $2,500 and a certificate.

Winners

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  • 2021 – Alice BaumgartnerSouth to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War[1]
  • 2020 – Maurice Crandall – These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912
  • 2019 – Monica Muñoz MartinezThe Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
  • 2018 – Louis WarrenGod's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
  • 2017 – James F. BrooksMesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre
  • 2016 – Edward Dallam MelilloStrangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile–California Connection
  • 2016 – Joshua Reid, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
  • 2015 – Andrew Needham – Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
  • 2014 – Keith R. Widder – Beyond Pontiac's Shadow: Michilmackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763
  • 2013 – Frederick E. Hoxie – This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
  • 2012 – Anne F. HydeEmpires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860
  • 2011 – Erika Lee and Judy YungAngel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
  • 2010 – Elliott WestThe Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
  • 2009 – Pekka HämäläinenThe Comanche Empire
  • 2008 – B. Byron Price – Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné
  • 2007 – Albert L. Hurtado – John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
  • 2006 – Louis S. WarrenBuffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show
  • 2005 – Jeffrey OstlerThe Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
  • 2004 – Colin G. CallowayOne Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark
  • 2003 – Will BagleyBlood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
  • 2002 – Donald WorsterA River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
  • 2001 – Robert V. Hine and John Mack FaragherThe American West: A New Interpretive History
  • 2000 – Walter NugentInto the West: The Story of Its People
  • 1999 – Elliott West – The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
  • 1998 – Malcolm J Rorhbough – Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
  • 1997 – Richard W. Etulain – Re–Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History and Art
  • 1996 – David Wallace AdamsEducation for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928
  • 1995 – Clyde A. Milner III, Carol A. O’Connor, Martha A. Sandweiss, eds. – The Oxford History of the American West
  • 1994 – Robert M. UtleyThe Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
  • 1993 – David J. WeberThe Spanish Frontier in North America

Prior to 1993, it was known as the Western History Association Prize for a “distinguished body of writing”


References

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