Friday 1 May 2009

The 2009 Spur awards


The result for the 2009 Spur Awards given by The Western Writers of America

Best Western Short Novel


Winner:
Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson
Viking / Penguin

Finalist:
Dreams Beneath Your Feet
Win Blevins
Forge Books / Tom Doherty

Finalist:
Killstraight
Johnny Boggs
Five Star


Best Western Long Novel


Winner:
Shavetail
Thomas Cobb
Scribner

Finalist:
Wolves At Our Door
J.P.S. Brown
University of New Mexico Press

Finalist:
The Long Knives are Crying
Joseph M. Marshall III
Fulcrum Publishing


Best Original Mass Market Paperback


Winner:
Trouble at the Redstone
John D. Nesbitt
Dorchester Publishing

Finalist:
The Trespassers
Andrew J. Fenady
Dorchester Publishing

Finalist:
I, Quantrill
Max McCoy
Signet / NAL


Best First Novel

Winner:
God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana
Carol A. Buchanan
Book Surge, LLC

Finalist:
Undiscovered Country
Lin Enger
Little, Brown & Company

Finalist:
The Buffalo Rock
Bob Faulkner
Stand Up America, USA


Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America
Meredith Mason Brown
Louisiana State University Press

Finalist:
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Donald Worster
Oxford University Press

Finalist:
Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith
Margot Kahn
University of Oklahoma Press


Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:
Hunting The American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit, and Sport, 1800-1900
Richard C. Rattenbury
Boone and Crockett Club

Finalist:
Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
David Dary
Alfred A. Knopf

Finalist:
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn -The Last Great Battle of the American West
James Donovan
Little, Brown & Company


Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:
Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School—Basketball Champions of the World
Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
University of Oklahoma Press

Finalist:
Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876
Jerome A. Greene
University of Oklahoma Press

Finalist:
What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak
David Schweidel and Robert Boswell
Cinco Puntos Press


Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:
"Cornflower Blue"
Susan K. Salzer
Untamed Ink, Lindenwood University

Finalist:
"Mickey Free: The Graphic Novel"
Bob Boze Bell and Paul Andrew Hutton
True West Magazine

Finalist:
"Morning War"
Cotton Smith
The Way of the West, Dorchester


Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:
"Owen Wister's Paladin of the Plains: The Virginian as a Cultural Hero"
David A. Smith
South Dakota History, South Dakota State Historical Society

Finalist:
"More Real than the Indians Themselves: The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States"
Clyde Ellis
Montana The Magazine of Western History

Finalist
"Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade & the Early American West, 1775-1825"
Dan Flores
Montana The Magazine of Western History


Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:
I am Apache
Tanya Landman
Candlewick Press

Finalist:
The Gold Rush Kid
Mary Waldorf
Clarion Books

Finalist:
Her Enemies, Blue and Gray
Ellen Gray Massey
Goldminds Publishing


Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:
The Trial of Standing Bear
Frank Keating, Mike Wimmer (artist)
Oklahoma Heritage Association

Finalist:
A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
Gina Capaldi
Lerner Publishing

Finalist:
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
Sid Fleischman
Harper Collins Children's Books


Storyteller Award

Winner:
The Wheat Doll
Alison L. Randall and Bill Farnsworth (artist)
Peachtree Publishers

Finalist:
Daniel Boone's Great Escape
Michael P. Spradlin, Ard Hoyt (artist)
Walker & Company

Finalist:
Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show
Susan Stevens Crummel, Dorothy Donohue (artist)
Marshall Cavendish Children's Books


Best Western Drama

Winner:
None
No Winner


Finalist:
None
No Winner



Best Western Documentary

Winner:
Kit Carson
Michelle Ferrari
American Experience, WGBH

Finalist:
Buffalo Bill
Rob Rapley
American Experience, WGBH

Finalist:
A Ballad of the West
Bobby Bridger
Bridger Productions, White Coyote Music


Best Western Poem

Winner:
"The Only Good Indian"
Linda Hussa
The Black Rock Press

Finalist:
"Sometimes, in the Lucias"
Janice Gilbertson
BK Publications

Finalist:
"Steers in Summer, Lowing"
Larry D. Thomas
Rattle


Best Western Audiobook

Winner:
Vendetta Canyon
Stan Lynde
Books in Motion

Finalist:
Grasshoppers in Summer
Paul Schmelzer Writing as Paul Colt
Books in Motion

Finalist:
Letter of the Law
C.K. Crigger
Books in Motion


Best Western Song

Winner:
"Linwood"
Jon Chandler
Western Dog Publishing BMI

Finalist:
"Soy Cayuse Cimarron"
Mike Blakely
Swing Rider Records

Finalist:
"Apache Kid"
Royal Wade Kimes
Blue Whistler Music

Thanks to Todd Mason for this information.

2 comments:

Richard Prosch said...

Thanks for posting this. I've just picked up Trouble at the Redstone by
John D. Nesbitt. Since your interview with him I've read his book STRANGER IN THUNDER BASIN and thought it was excellent.

Stephanie Barko said...

I helped publicized Trouble at the Redstone for John Nesbitt when it first came out, in tandem with his publicist from Dorchester.

John has served on the Board of
Western Writers of America now for
one year. This is his first Spur
and I know how honored he must feel, having attended the 2008 Spur Award ceremony with him last summer in Scottsdale.

Stephanie Barko
Literary Publicist
Austin, Texas
"Authors indigenous to the American West"
www.authorsassistant.com/Barko.htm
www.theauthorsassistant.blogspot.com

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