Jetzt geht es um Preise nicht für Erfundenes, sondern für Sachbücher über den amerikanischen Westen, von denen leider nur ein verschwindend kleiner Teil auch in deutscher Sprache erschienen ist.
Bereits bei der zweiten Preisverleihung wurde erstmals das Beste Western-Sachbuch (
Best Western Nonfiction) ausgezeichnet. Die Gewinner bis 1992 waren:
1954
(1955) David Lavender:
Bent’s Fort
1955
(1956) Paul F. Sharp:
Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865-1885
1956
(1957) Irving Stone:
Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900
1957
(1958) Robert West Howard (Hg.):
This Is the West (dt.: Der Wilde Westen)
1958
(1959) Mabel Barbee Lee:
Cripple Creek Days
1959
(1960) Frank X. Tolbert:
The Day of San Jacinto
1960
(1961) Lola M. Homsher (Hg.):
South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm’s Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush
1961
(1962) Don Russell:
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill
1962
(1963) Richard A. Bartlett:
Great Surveys of the American West
1963
(1964) William S. Greever:
The Bonanza West: The Story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900
1964
(1965) Ernest Staples Osgood:
The Field Notes of Captain William Clark, 1803-1805
1965
(1966) Alvin M.Josephy Jr.:
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest - außerdem ausgezeichnet mit dem Saddleman Award 1966
1966
(1967) Ray Allen Billington:
America’s Frontier Heritage
1967
(1968) John A. Hawgood:
America’s Western Frontiers
1968
(1969) Vardis Fisher & Opal Laurel Holmes:
Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West
1969
(1970) Nellie Snyder Yost:
Boss Cowman: The Recollections of Ed Lemmon, 1857-1946
1970
(1971) Francis Haines:
The Buffalo
1971
(1972) Elliott S. Barker:
Western Life & Adventures in the Great Southwest
1972
(1973) Tom McHugh:
The Time of the Buffalo
1973
(1974) Richard H. Dillon:
Burnt-Out Fires: California’s Modoc Indian War
1974
(1975) C. L. Sonnichsen:
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
1975
(1976) Paul Horgan:
Lamy of Santa Fe
1976
(1977) Stan Steiner:
The Vanishing White Man (dt.: Der Untergang des weißen Mannes?)
1977
(1978) Joyce Gibson Roach:
The Cowgirls
1978
(1979) Janet Lecompte:
Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: The Upper Arkansas, 1832-1856
1979
(1980) Donald E. Worcester:
The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest (dt.: Die Apachen: Adler des Südwestens)
1980
(1981) Stan Hoig:
The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes
1981
(1982) David Dary:
Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries
1982
(1983) Marc Simmons:
Albuquerque: A Narrative History
1983
(1984) Carl Briggs & Clyde Trudell:
Quarterdeck and Saddlehorn: The Story of Edward F. Beale, 1822-1893
1984
(1985) Stella Hughes:
Hashknife Cowboy: Recollections of Mack Hughes
1985
(1986) Paul Andrew Hutton:
Phil Sheridan and His Army
1986
(1987) Joseph C. Porter:
Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West
1987
(1988) Pamela Herr:
Jessie Benton Frémont: American Woman of the 19th Century
1988
(1989) Joseph Stevens:
Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
1989
(1990) Ian Frazier:
Great Plains
1990
(1991) Valerie Sherer Mathes:
Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy
1991
(1992) John S. Gray:
Custer’s Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed
1992
(1993) David Lavender:
Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedy
Danach wurde die Kategorie aufgeteilt. Es gibt einen Preis für das Beste Historische Western-Sachbuch (
Best Western Nonfiction – Historical)…
1993
(1994) Robert M. Utley:
The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
1994
(1995) Paula Mitchell Marks:
Precious Dust: The American Gold Rush Era, 1848-1900
1995
(1996) David Dary:
Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
1996
(1997) Stephen E. Ambrose:
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
(1997)1998 John Miller Morris:
El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
(1998)1999 und
(1999)2000 (nicht vergeben)
(2000)2001 Dale L. Walker:
Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country
(2001)2002 Robert V. Remini:
Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
[in der Endausscheidung: Jo Ella Exley: Frontier Blood
& Barton H. Barbour: Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade]
(2002)2003 Will Bagley:
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
(2003)2004 Colin G. Calloway:
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark
(2004)2005 Richard Steven Street:
Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
(2005)2006 Louis S. Warren:
Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and The Wild West Show
(2006)2007 Hampton Sides:
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
[in der Endausscheidung: M. John Lubetkin: Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
& Bill Neal: Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials]
(2007)2008 Annette Atkins:
Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out
[in der Endausscheidung: Stephen L. Hardin: Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston]
(2008)2009 Richard C. Rattenbury:
Hunting the American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit, and Sport, 1800-1900
[in der Endausscheidung: David Dary: Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
& James Donovan: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn – The Last Great Battle of the American West]
(2009)2010 Douglas C. McChristian:
Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains
[in der Endausscheidung: William B. Shillingberg: Dodge City: The Early Years 1872-1886
& Paul Horsted, Ernest Grafe & Jon Nelson: Crossing the Plains with Custer]
(2010)2011 Thomas Powers:
The Killing of Crazy Horse
[in der Endausscheidung: Jerome A. Greene: Beyond Bear’s Paw: The Nez Perce Indians in Canada
& Will Bagley: So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848]
(2011)2012 David L. Bigler & Will Bagley:
The Mormon Rebellion: America’s First Civil War, 1857-1858
[in der Endausscheidung: Paul L. Hedren: After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
& Richard White: Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America]
(2012)2013 Will Bagley:
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852
[in der Endausscheidung: Doreen Chaky: Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854-1868
& Joan Nabseth Stevenson: Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry]
(2013)2014 Mark Lee Gardner:
Shot all to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape
[in der Endausscheidung: James E. Mueller: Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, The Press and the Little Bighorn
& Bob Drury & Tom Clavin: The Heart of Everything that Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend]
(2014)2015 Jerome A. Greene:
American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890
[in der Endausscheidung: David L. Caffey: Chasing the Santa Fe Ring: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico
& Will Bagley: South Pass: Gateway to a Continent]
(2015)2016 William Heath:
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest
[in der Endausscheidung: Rinker Buck: The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
& Lesley Poling-Kempes: Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest]
(2016)2017 (nicht vergeben)
(2017)2018 David Grann:
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (dt.: Das Verbrechen: Die wahre Geschichte hinter der spektakulärsten Mordserie Amerikas)
[in der Endausscheidung: Christopher Knowlton: Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
& James A. Hanson: Provisions of the Fur Trade: The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods, Vol. 6]
(2018)2019 Brenden W. Rensink:
Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
[in der Endausscheidung: Gregory Crouch: The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
& Jim DeFelice: West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express]
(2019)2020 Pekka Hämäläinen:
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
[in der Endausscheidung: Candy Moulton: The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow”
& Doug Hocking: Terror on the Santa Fe Trail: Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache]
(2020)2021 Robert M. Utley:
The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull & the Resistance of the Free Lakotas
[in der Endausscheidung: Ryan Hall: Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
& Alice L. Baumgartner: South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War]
(2021)2022 Terry Mort:
Cheyenne Summer: The Battle of Beecher Island
[in der Endausscheidung: Jeff Guinn:
War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, The Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
& Chris Enss:
Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad]
… und es gibt einen Preis für das Beste Zeitgenössische Western-Sachbuch (
Best Western Nonfiction – Contemporary).
Ich habe zwar keine Definition gefunden, leite aber aus den Themen der Werke ab, dass diese sich offenbar auf das 20. (frühestens das sehr späte 19.) Jahrhundert beziehen müssen.
1993
(1994) Margaret Leslie Davis:
Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
1994
(1995) Ellen Meloy:
Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River
1995
(1996) Conger Beasley Jr.:
We Are a People in This World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee
1996
(1997) Michael L. Johnson:
New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture
(1997)1998 J. Anthony Lukas:
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
(1998)1999 Hal K. Rothman:
Devil’s Bargains: Tourism on the Twentieth-Century American West
(1999)2000 Michael Wallis:
The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West
(2000)2001 Geoffrey O’Gara:
What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West
(2001)2002 Tom Rea:
Bone Wars: The Excavation of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur
[in der Endausscheidung: Stephen Pyne: Year of the Fires
& Tom Harmer: Going Native]
(2002)2003 Peter Iverson:
Diné: A History of the Navajos
(2003)2004 Rebecca Solnit:
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
(2004)2005 Charles H. Harris III & Louis R. Sadler:
The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade 1910 – 1920
(2005)2006 David Dorado Romo:
Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923
(2006)2007 Dennis L. Swibold:
Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics and the Montana Press, 1889-1959
[in der Endausscheidung: William D. Layman: River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
& Renée M. Laegreid: Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West]
(2007)2008 Robert M. Utley:
Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
(2008)2009 Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith:
Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School – Basketball Champions of the World
[in der Endausscheidung: Jerome A. Greene: Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876
& David Schweidel & Robert Boswell: What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victoria Peak]
(2009)2010 Charles H. Harris III & Louis R. Sadler:
The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920
[in der Endausscheidung: Katherine Benton-Cohen: Borderline Americans: Racial Division and the Labor War in the American Borderlands
& Timothy Egan: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America]
(2010)2011 Lawrence Culver:
The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America
[in der Endausscheidung: Susan Kushner Resnick: Goodbye Wives and Daughters
& Joe McNeill: Arizona’s Little Hollywood: Sedona and Northern Arizona’s Forgotten Film History, 1923-1973]
(2011)2012 Frederick H. Swanson:
The Bitterroot & Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies
[in der Endausscheidung: Jim Kristofic: Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
& Rachel St. John: Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border]
(2012)2013 Deanne Stillman:
Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History
[in der Endausscheidung: Michael W. Childers: Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement
& Ruben Martinez: Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West]
(2013)2014 William Philpott:
Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country
[in der Endausscheidung: Jared Farmer: Trees in Paradise: A California History
& Larry D. Gragg: Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture]
(2014)2015 Angela Day:
Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster
[in der Endausscheidung: Lincoln Bramwell: Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature’s Edge
& Dan O’Brien: Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land]
(2015)2016 Leisl Carr Childers:
The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin
[in der Endausscheidung: Ben Masters: Unbranded: Four Men and Sixteen Mustangs. Three Thousand Miles across the American West
& Kenna Lang Archer: Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River]
(2016)2017 Michael Duchemin:
New Deal Cowboy: Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy
[in der Endausscheidung: Fernanda Santos: The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting (aber ausgezeichnet als Best First Nonfiction Book)
& Bruce L. Smith: Stories From Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places]
(2017)2018 Flannery Burke:
A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century
[in der Endausscheidung: Jeffrey A. Lockwood: Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech
& Steve Friesen & François Chladiuk: Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind]
(2018)2019 Francisco Cantú:
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
[in der Endausscheidung: John Branch: The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
& Kermit Schweidel: Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s Tale of the Pot Rebellion
& Joshua Wheeler: Acid West: Essays]
(2019)2020 Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns:
Country Music: An Illustrated History
[in der Endausscheidung: David Crow: The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story (aber ausgezeichnet als Best First Nonfiction Book)
& Byron E. Pearson: Saving Grand Canyon: Dams, Deals, and a Noble Myth]
(2020)2021 Justin Farrell:
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
[in der Endausscheidung: Theodore Waddell: Cheatgrass Dreams
& Jim Hoy: My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie
& Ginger Gaffney: Half Broke: A Memoir]
(2021)2022 Finis Dunaway:
Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
[in der Endausscheidung: Barney Nelson:
Making Circles: The Memoir of a Cowboy Journalist
& Abe Streep:
Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana]