Die Beschreibung der folgenden Kategorie ist schwierig. Anfangs war sie für Erinnerungen und Essays (
Memoir/Essay) gedacht.
(1998)1999 Kathleen Jo Ryan:
Writing Down the River
[in der Endausscheidung: Ronald James & C. Elizabeth Raymond: The Comstock Women]
(1999)2000 Mari Graña:
Begoso Cabin: A Pecos Country Retreat
[in der Endausscheidung: Susan Zwinger: The Last Wild Edge]
(2000)2001 Julene Bair:
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter
[in der Endausscheidung: Iris Keltz: Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie
& Caroline Marwitz: Naming the Winds: A High Plains Apprenticeship]
(2001)2002 Mary D. Midkiff:
She Flies Without Wings: How Horses Touch A Woman’s Soul
[in der Endausscheidung: Jane Candia Coleman: Mountain Time
& T. Louise Freeman-Toole: Standing Up to the Rock]
(2002)2003 Judy Blunt:
Breaking Clean
[in der Endausscheidung: Linda M. Hasselstrom: Between Grass and Sky
& Margaret Bell: When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood]
(2003)2004 Dorothy Allred Solomon:
Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy
[in der Endausscheidung: Ellen Baumler (Hg.): Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan
& Ellen Waterston: Then There Was No Mountain]
(2004)2005 Lucy Moore:
Into the Canyon: Seven Years In Navajo Country
[in der Endausscheidung: Bette Lynch Husted: Above The Clearwater: Living On Stolen Land
& Lee Rostad: Grace Stone Coates: Her Life in Letters]
(2005)2006 Dee Marvine:
The Lady Rode Bucking Horses
[in der Endausscheidung: Lucy Fischer-West: Child of Many Rivers
& Heather Lende: If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name]
Seither umfasst sie etwas, das in Amerika
Creative Nonfiction genannt wird. Das hört sich wie ein Widerspruch in sich an, denn etwas, das man sich nicht ausdenkt, kann ja eigentlich nichts sein, was Ergebnis einer schöpferischen Tätigkeit ist. Gemeint sind damit Bücher, die sich zwar wie Sachbücher an die Fakten halten, diese Fakten aber nicht streng wissenschaftlich, sondern mit literarischen Mitteln darstellen.
(2006)2007 Caroline Patterson (Hg.):
Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart
[in der Endausscheidung: Susan Sokol Blosser: At Home in the Vineyard
& Jodi Varon: Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father]
(2007)2008 Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale & Paula Stallings Yost (Hg.):
What Wildness Is This: Women Write About the Southwest
[in der Endausscheidung: Betty Reid: Navajo Women: Saanii
& Velda Brotherton: Fly With the Morning Dove]
(2008)2009 Michele Longo Eder:
Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife
[in der Endausscheidung: Jane Kirkpatrick: Aurora: An American Experience in Quilt, Community, and Craft
& Amy Irvine: Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land]
(2009)2010 Linda Hasselstrom:
No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life
[in der Endausscheidung: Kay Turnbaugh: The Last of the Wild West Cowgirls: A True Story
& Diana Allen Kouris: Riding the Edge of an Era: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail]
(2010)2011 Evelyn Searle Hess:
To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home
[in der Endausscheidung: Pat Carr: One Page at a Time
& Ruth McLaughlin: Bound Like Grass]
(2011)2012 Amy Hale Auke:
Rightful Place
[in der Endausscheidung: Louise Wagenknecht: Light on the Devils: Coming of Age on the Klamath
& Lin Pardey: Bull Canyon: A Boat Builder, A Writer, and Other Wildlife]
(2012)2013 Priscilla Stuckey:
Kissed by a Fox and Other Stories of Friendship in Nature
(2013)2014 Sara Loewen:
Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands
[in der Endausscheidung: Christine Byl: Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods
& Darcy Lipp-Acord: Circling Back Home: A Plainswoman’s Journey]
(2014)2015 Sharman Apt Russell:
Diary of A Citizen Scientist
[in der Endausscheidung: Yelizaveta P. Renfro: Xylotheque
Mary Beth Baptiste: Altitude Adjustment]
(2015)2016 Hannah Nordhaus:
American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
[in der Endausscheidung: Susan Imhoff Bird: HOWL of Woman and Wolf
& Sandra Scofield: Mysteries of Love and Grief: Reflections of a Plainswoman’s Life]
(2016)2017 Debbie Clarke Moderow:
Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail
[in der Endausscheidung: Eileen Mayer Thiel: Seasons Silently Waiting
& Linda Preston McKinstry: Wilderness Fever]
(2017)2018 Mary Lee Fulkerson (Fotos von Susan E. Mantle):
Women Artists of the Great Basin
[in der Endausscheidung: Amy Hale Auker: Ordinary Skin: Essays from Willow Springs
& Rosemary McGuire: Rough Crossing: An Alaskan Fisherwoman’s Memoir]
(2018)2019 Mary Budd Flitner:
My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir
[in der Endausscheidung: Karen Auvinen: Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
& Stephany Wilkes: Raw Material: Working Wool in the West]
(2019)2020 Debra Gwartney:
I Am A Stranger Here Myself
[in der Endausscheidung: Monica Devine: Water Mask
& Deborah Tobola: Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, A Memoir]
(2020)2021 Kendra Atleework:
Miracle Country: A Memoir of Family and a Landscape
[in der Endausscheidung: Elizabeth B. Austin:
Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch: One Woman’s Fight to Save Land in the American West
& Ellen Waterston:
Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail]
Im Gegensatz dazu stehen „richtige“ Sachbücher (
Nonfiction), deren wissenschaftlicher Anspruch seit 2007 mit der Bezeichnung
Scholarly Nonfiction betont wird.
(1998)1999 John E. Miller:
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
[in der Endausscheidung: Cathy Luchetti: Medicine Woman]
(1999)2000 Kristen Iversen:
Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth
[in der Endausscheidung: Linda Gordon: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction]
(2000)2001 (nicht vergeben)
(2001)2002 Holly Skinner:
Eye of the Blackbird
[in der Endausscheidung: Sally Zanjani: Sarah Winnemucca
& Carolyn Niethammer: I'll Go and Do More]
(2002)2003 Arnold Berke:
Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest
[in der Endausscheidung: Darlis A. Miller: Mary Hallock Foote
& Eileen Pollack: Woman Walking Ahead]
(2003)2004 Linda Lawrence Hunt:
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
[in der Endausscheidung: Charles M. Hatch & Todd M. Compton (Hg.): A Widow's Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
& Lynn Musslewhite & Suzanne Jones Crawford: One Woman's Political Journey]
(2004)2005 Kristie Miller:
Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman
[in der Endausscheidung: Sandra Dallas: The Quilt That Walked to Golden: Women and Quilts in the Mountain West - From the Overland Trail to Contemporary Colorado
& Joyce Litz: The Montana Frontier: One Woman’s West]
(2005)2006 Susanne Bloomfield (Hg.):
Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie, a Journalist in the Gilded Age
[in der Endausscheidung: Mari Graña: Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman’s Work
& Jan Cleere: More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women]
(2006)2007 Diane Eickhoff:
Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights
[in der Endausscheidung: Debra B. Faulkner: Touching Tomorrow: The Emily Griffith Story]
(2007)2008 Pamela Smith Hill:
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
[in der Endausscheidung: Jane G. Haigh: Searching for Fannie Quigley: A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley
& Janis P. Stout: Picturing a Different West: Vision Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin]
(2008)2009 Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith:
Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
[in der Endausscheidung: John E. Miller: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture
& Marcia Meredith Hensley: Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West]
(2009)2010 Linda Gordon:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
[in der Endausscheidung: Jan MacKell: Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains
& Sarah Carter: Montana Women Homesteaders, A Field of One’s Own]
(2010)2011 Kimberley Mangun:
A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936
[in der Endausscheidung: Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Chris Nicholl, Calvin P. Otto & Katherine Scott Sturdevant (Hg.): Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West
& Virginia Elwood-Akers: Caroline Severance]
(2011)2012 Sarah Carter & Patricia McCormack (Hg.):
Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
[in der Endausscheidung: Joyce B. Lohse: Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen]
(2012)2013 Elizabeth A. Watry:
Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legends and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park
[in der Endausscheidung: Valerie Sherer Mathes: Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women’s National Indian Association]
& Gail M. Beaton: Colorado Women: A History]
(2013)2014 Linda Williams Reese:
Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890
[in der Endausscheidung: Sherry Robinson: I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches
& Ann Kirschner: Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp]
(2014)2015 David J. Langum Sr.:
Quite Contrary: The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love
[in der Endausscheidung: Patricia Ackerman: Marymount College of Kansas: A History]
(2015)2016 Lesley Poling-Kempes:
Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
[in der Endausscheidung: Sue Armitage: Shaping the Public Good: Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest
& Stacy B. Schaefer: Amada’s Blessing from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas]
(2016)2017 Jennifer J. Lawrence:
Soap Suds Row
[in der Endausscheidung: Eleanor Phillips Brackbill: The Queen of Heartbreak Trail
Sarah Byrn Rickman: Finding Dorothy Scott]
(2017)2018 Candace Wellman:
Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages
[in der Endausscheidung: Lydia Reeder: Dust Bowl Girls
& Julia Bricklin: America’s Best Female Sharpshooter: The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith]
(2018)2019 Heather Mayer:
Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924
[in der Endausscheidung: Ethel Waxham Love & J. David Love: Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming]
(2019)2020 Lynn Downey:
Arequipa Sanatorium: Life in California’s Lung Resort for Women
[in der Endausscheidung: Candace Wellman: Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities
& Kathryn Swim Cummings: Esther Hobart Morris: The Unembellished Story of the Nation’s First Female Judge]
(2020)2021 Sarah Carter:
Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
[in der Endausscheidung: Gail M. Beaton:
Colorado Women in World War II
& Carolyn Grattan Eichin:
From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West]