• 2024 –
Elliott West Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion • 2023 –
Michael John Witgen Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America • 2022 –
Traci Brynne Voyles ''The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism'' • 2021 –
Alice Baumgartner –
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War • 2020 – Maurice Crandall –
These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912 • 2019 –
Monica Muñoz Martinez –
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas • 2018 –
Louis Warren – ''God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America'' • 2017 –
James F. Brooks – ''Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre'' • 2016 –
Edward Dallam Melillo –
Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile–California Connection • 2016 – Joshua Reid,
The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs • 2015 – Andrew Needham –
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest • 2014 – Keith R. Widder – ''Beyond Pontiac's Shadow: Michilmackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763'' • 2013 – Frederick E. Hoxie –
This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made • 2012 –
Anne F. Hyde –
Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860 • 2011 –
Erika Lee and
Judy Yung –
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America • 2010 –
Elliott West –
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story • 2009 –
Pekka Hämäläinen –
The Comanche Empire • 2008 – B. Byron Price –
Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné • 2007 – Albert L. Hurtado –
John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier • 2006 –
Louis S. Warren – ''Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show'' • 2005 –
Jeffrey Ostler –
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee • 2004 –
Colin G. Calloway –
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark • 2003 –
Will Bagley –
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows • 2002 –
Donald Worster –
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell • 2001 –
Robert V. Hine and
John Mack Faragher –
The American West: A New Interpretive History • 2000 –
Walter Nugent –
Into the West: The Story of Its People • 1999 – Elliott West –
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado • 1998 – Malcolm J Rorhbough –
Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation • 1997 – Richard W. Etulain –
Re–Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History and Art • 1996 –
David Wallace Adams –
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 • 1995 – Clyde A. Milner III, Carol A. O’Connor,
Martha A. Sandweiss, eds. –
The Oxford History of the American West • 1994 –
Robert M. Utley –
The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull • 1993 –
David J. Weber –
The Spanish Frontier in North America ---- Prior to 1993, it was known as the Western History Association Prize for a “distinguished body of writing” ---- • 1992 –
Howard Lamar • 1991 –
W. Turrentine Jackson • 1990 –
Wallace Stegner • 1989 –
William T. Hagan • 1988 –
Robert M. Utley • 1987 –
Francis Paul Prucha • 1986 –
Paul W. Gates • 1985 – No Award Given • 1984 – No Award Given • 1983 –
Robert G. Athearn ==References==