Mit dem Jahr 1979 wurde ein eigener Preis für den Besten Kurzbeitrag über ein Sachthema (
Best Western Short Nonfiction) geschaffen.
1979
(1980) Max Evans: „
Super Bull“ (The Seven Horseman Magazine)
1980
(1981) (nicht vergeben)
1981
(1982) Alice J. Hall: „
Buffalo Bill and the Enduring West“ (Far West Magazine)
1982
(1983) Thomas Y. Canby: „
The Anasazi“ (National Geographic Magazine)
1983
(1984) (nicht vergeben)
1984
(1985) Francis L. Fugate: „
Arbuckle’s: The Coffee That Won the West“ (The American West)
1985
(1986) Nellie Snyder Yost: „
The National Game Out West“ (Frontier Times)
1986
(1987) Robin Cody: „
Let ’Er Buck!“ (The Oregonian)
1987
(1988) Joyce Gibson Roach: „
A High-Toned Woman“
1988
(1989) Dale L. Walker: „
The Boys of ’98“ (True West)
1989
(1990) Valerie Sherer Mathes: „
Helen Hunt Jackson and the Ponca Controversy“
1990
(1991) Shelly Ritthaler: „
The Ginger Jar“
1991
(1992) James A. Crutchfield: „
Marching with the Army of the West“ (Blackpowder Annual)
1992
(1993) Preston Lewis: „
Bluster’s Last Stand“ (True West)
1993
(1994) Suzann Ledbetter: „
Nellie Cashman“
1994
(1995) Howard Bryan: „
Incredible Elfego Baca“ (Clear Light)
1995
(1996) Nancy M. Peterson: „
Captain Marsh: Master of the Missouri“ (Wild West Magazine)
1996
(1997) Fred Erisman & Patricia L. Erisman: „
Letters from the Field: John Sylvanus Loud and the Pine Ridge Campaign of 1880-91“ (South Dakota History)
(1997)1998 Jake Page: „
Ranchers form Radical Center to Protest Wide-Open Spaces“ (Smithsonian Magazine)
(1998)1999 Carlton L. Bonilla: „
A South Dakota Rendezvous“ (South Dakota History)
(1999)2000 Elliott West: „
Golden Dreams“
(2000)2001 H.W. Paige: „
Death Song“
(2001)2002 Dale L. Walker: „
Killer of Pain’s Transcontinental Journey“
[in der Endausscheidung: Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith: „World Champions: The 1904 Girls' Basketball Team from Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
& James A. Crutchfield: „The World on Fire“ (Dixie Gunworks Annual)]
(2002)2003 Kerry R. Oman: „
Winter in the Rockies: Winter Quarters of the Mountain Men“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
(2003)2004 Elliott West: „
Reconstructing Race“ (Western Historical Quarterly)
[in der Endausscheidung: Lori Van Pelt: „Cattle Kate: Homesteader or Cattle Thief“ (Wild Women of the Old West)]
(2004)2005 Jim Doherty: „
Blood For Oil“ (Just the Facts)
(2005)2006 Paul L. Hedren: „
The Contradictory Legacies of Buffalo Bill Cody’s First Scalp for Custer“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
(2006)2007 Kerry Oman: „
Forced into the Rockies: The Rise of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Era“ (Annals of Wyoming)
[in der Endausscheidung: Paul Andrew Hutton: „Why is this Man Forgotten“ (True West)
& John D. McDermott: „No More Snowstorms, Tears or Dying“ (Wild West)]
(2007)2008 Joseph B. Herring: „
Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845“ (Kansas History)
(2008)2009 David A. Smith: „
Owen Wister’s Paladin of the Plains: The Virginian as a Cultural Hero“ (South Dakota History)
[in der Endausscheidung: Clyde Ellis: „More Real than the Indians Themselves: The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
& Dan Flores: „Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade & the Early American West, 1775-1825“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)]
(2009)2010 Roger Di Silvestro: „
Teddy’s Ride to Recovery“ (Wild West Magazine)
[in der Endausscheidung: Kerry Oman: „Rejoicing in the Beauties of Nature: The Image of the Western Landscape During the Fur Trade“ (Great Plains Quarterly)
& Michael A. Amundson: „These Men Play Real Polo: An Elite Sport in the Cowboy State, 1890-1930“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)]
(2010)2011 Lee Niedringhaus: „
The N Bar N Ranch: A Legend of the Open-Range Cattle Industry, 1885-99“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
[in der Endausscheidung: Dan Flores: „Horse Trading in the Early West“ (Wild West Magazine)
& Don Cutler: „Your Nations Shall Be Exterminated“ (MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History)]
(2011)2012 Paul Andrew Hutton: „
The Alamo, Well Remembered“ (Wild West Magazine)
[in der Endausscheidung: John R. Wunder: „That No Thorn Will Pierce Our Friendship“ (Western Historical Quarterly)
& Mark Dworkin: „The Wild West’s Premier Mythmaker“ (Wild West Magazine)]
(2012)2013 Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert: „
Marathoner Louis Tewanima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908-1912“ (Western Historical Quarterly)
[in der Endausscheidung: Paul Andrew Hutton: „Libbie Custer: ‘A Wounded Thing Must Hide’“ (Wild West)
& James E. Potter: „‘Wearing the Hempen Neck-Tie’: Lynching in Nebraska 1858-1919“ (Nebraska History)]
(2013)2014 Mark Lee Gardner: „
The Other James Brother“ (Wild West)
[in der Endausscheidung: Kristin Johnson: „Donner Party Cannibalism: Did They or Didn’t They?“ (Wild West)
& Victoria Grieve: „Celebrating ‘Progress’?: Art, Ambivalence, and Vanessa Helder’s Grand Coulee Suite“ (Western Historical Quarterly)]
(2014)2015 Richard W. Etulain: „
Calamity Jane: A Life and Legends“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
[in der Endausscheidung: Renee M. Laegreid: „Finding the American West in Twenty-First Century Italy“ (Western Historical Quarterly)
& Donald Worster: „The American West in the Age of Vulnerability“ (Western Historical Quarterly)]
(2015)2016 Michael M. Miller: „
Cowboys and Capitalists: The XIT Ranch in Texas and Montana, 1885-1912“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
[in der Endausscheidung: Dan Flores: „Where the Pronghorns Play“ (Wild West)
& Louis S. Warren: „Wage Work in the Second Circle: The Ghost Dance as Modern Religion“ (Western Historical Quarterly)]
(2016)2017 Kendra Field & Daniel Lynch: „
‘Master of Ceremonies’: The World of Peter Biggs in Civil War-Era Los Angeles“ (Western Historical Quarterly)
[in der Endausscheidung: Mark Lee Gardner: „Cowboys & Millionaires: How Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders Bonded as Brothers Before Leaving to Fight in the Spanish-American War“ (True West Magazine)
& Will Bagley: „Touching History: A Grandson’s Memories of Felix Marion Jones and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows“ (Utah Historical Quaterly)]
(2017)2018 Ben Mauk: „
States of Decay: A Journey Through America’s Nuclear Heartland“ (Harper’s Magazine)
[in der Endausscheidung: Paul Andrew Hutton: „The Great Western“ (True West)
& Gregory Nickerson: „All-American Indian Days and the Miss Indian America Pageant“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)]
(2018)2019 Peter H. Hassrick: „
Art, Agency, and Conservation: A Fresh Look at Albert Bierstadt’s Vision of the West“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
[in der Endausscheidung: Clay Reynolds: „Railroad Man” (New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature)
& Rodger C. Henderson: „The Piikuni and the U.S. Army’s Piegan Expedition: Competing Narratives of the 1870 Massacre on the Marias River“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)]
(2019)2020 Flannery Burke: „
‘Worry, USA’: Dude Ranch Advertising Looks East, 1915-1945“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
[in der Endausscheidung: David Beyreis: „‘If you had fought bravely I would have sung for you’: The Changing Roles of Cheyenne Women during Nineteenth Century Plains Warfare“ (Montana: The Magazine of Western History)
& Lynne Yuan: „China’s Lost Women in the Far West“ (Wild West)]
(2020)2021 Ted Franklin Belue: „
Daniel Boone’s Life in the Far West: An Inquiry into His Alleged Yellowstone Hunt“ (Muzzleloader)
[in der Endausscheidung: Paul L. Hedren: „Who Killed Crazy Horse: A Historiographical Review and Affirmation“ (Nebraska History)
& Gretchen E. Minton: „Shakespeare in Frontier and Territorial Montana, 1820-1889“ (Montana The Magazine of Western History)]
(2021)2022 Shane Dunning: „
The Right Man to Do a Wrong Thing: Charlie Thex, the Bear Creek Sheep Raid, and the Primacy of Fear“ (Montana The Magazine of Western History)
[in der Endausscheidung: R.G. Yoho: „
C.E. Lively: The Man Who Started a War“ (Goldenseal)
& Rosalyn LaPier: „
Ella Mad Plume Yellow Wolf: Photographs by a Native American Woman in the Early 1940s“ (Montana The Magazine of Western History)]