"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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The Western Heritage Awards were first presented by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1961. They are given to "honor and encourage the legacy of those whose works . . . reflect the significant stories of the American West." In addition to the literary categories, awards are given in the categories of music, film and television. The latest winner of the Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the award. We also provide links to other Western Heritage Award winners and to the index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The latest winner of the Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books 2008 - Journey to San Jacinto by Melodie A. Cuate [2009 award will be announced Spring 2009]
All past Winners of the Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books 1962 - King of the Mountain Men: The Life of Jim Bridger by Gene Caesar
1963 - The Book of the West by Charles Chilton
1964 - Killer-of-Death by Betty Baker
1965 - The Greatest Cattle Drive by Paul Iselin Wellman
1966 - Land Rush by Carl G. Hodges
1967 - Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West by Marguerite Henry
1968 - Down the Rivers, Westward Ho! by Eric Scott
1969 - Edge of Two Worlds by Weyman Jones
1970 - An Awful Name to Live Up To by Jessie Hosford
1971 - And One Was a Wooden Indian by Betty Baker
1972 - The Black Mustanger by Richard Edward Wormser
1973 - Famous American Explorers by Bern Keating
1974 - No award
1975 - Susy's Scoundrel by Harold Keith
1976 - Owl in the Cedar Tree by N. Scott Momaday
1977-1978 - No award
1979 - The Obstinate Land by Harold Keith
1980 - The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories by Barbara M. Walker
1981-1983 - No award
1984 - Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
1985 - No award
1986 - Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
1987 - Happily May I Walk: American Indians and Alaska Natives Today by Arlene B. Hirschfelder
1988 - The Covered Wagon and Other Adventures by Lynn H. Scott
1989 - Stay Put, Robbie McAmis by Francis G. Tunbo
1990 - Letters to Oma: A Young German Girl's Account of Her First Year in Texas, 1847 by Marj Gurasich
1991- Bunkhouse Journal by Diane Johnston Hamm
1992 - Monster Slayer: a Navajo Folktale by Vee Browne, illustrated by Baje Whitethorne
1993 - An Indian Winter by Russell Freedman
1994 - Cowboys, Indians and Gunfighters: The Story of the Cattle Kingdom by Albert Marrin
1995 - Eagle Drum: On the Powwow Trail with a Young Grass Dancer by Robert Crum
1996 - The Night the Grandfathers Danced by Linda Theresa Raczek, illustrated by Katalin Olah Ehling
1997 - The West: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan
1998 - Daughter Of Suqua by Diane Johnston Hamm
1999 - Alice Rose and Sam by Kathryn Lasky
2000 - The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
2001 - Precious Gold, Precious Jade by Sharon E. Heisel
2002 - Delfino's Journey by Jo Harper
2003 - The Great Storm: The Hurricane Diary of J.T. King by Lisa Waller Rogers
2004 - The Long Way West by Hershell H. Nixon
2005 - The Good Rainbow Road: Rawa Kashtyaa'tsi Hiyaani: A Native American Tale in Keres and English Followed by a Translation into Spanish by Simon J. Ortiz
2006 - Westward Ho! Eleven Explorers of the American West by Charlotte Foltz Jones
2007 - Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier by James M. McPherson
2008 - Journey to San Jacinto by Melodie A. Cuate
2009 - Will be announced Spring 2009
Western Heritage Award for Books of Poetry > > >
The Official Website of the Western Heritage Awards
(Visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of the dozens of book awards listed on Happy Dead Trees.)
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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