2017 |
Off the Grid: |
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C.J. Box
Book list In the sixteenth Joe Pickett novel, the game warden's renegade friend Nate Romanowski is coerce...More |
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2016 |
Crazy Mountain Kiss: |
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Keith McCafferty
Book list *Starred Review* When you find a Santa hat in the fireplace of your rented cabin deep in Montana...More |
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2015 |
Bad Country |
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C.B. McKenzie
Book list A series of murders in remote Los Jarros County in southernmost Arizona soon involves PI Rodeo Grac...More |
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2012 (Original Mass Market Paperback) |
With blood in their eyes |
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Thomas Cobb
Publishers Weekly In this gripping 20th-century western, Cobb (Crazy Heart) presents a fictionalized account...More |
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2012 (Western Long Novel) |
Remember Ben Clayton |
Stephen Harrigan
Book list *Starred Review* Like the statue at its center, Harrigan's novel is a stunning work of art rest...More |
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2011 (Western Short Novel) |
Snowbound |
Richard S. Wheeler
Book list John Charles Fremont (1813-90), the mathematics teacher, military man, presidential candidate, and ...More |
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2010 (Western Short Novel) |
Far Bright Star |
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Robert Olmstead
Publishers Weekly In his seventh novel, Olmstead (Coal Black Horse) delivers another richly characterized, t...More |
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2009 (Western Short Novel) |
Another mans moccasins |
Craig Johnson.
Library Journal
: Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire ( Kindness Goes Unpunished) flashes back to his Vietnam War ex ...More |
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2009 (Western Long Novel) |
Shavetail : a novel |
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Thomas Cobb.
Library Journal A shavetail is a young mule paired with an older mule to learn its work. Brickner, who is as...More |
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2009 (Juvenile Fiction) |
I am Apache |
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Tanya Landman.
Publishers Weekly
: On the shortlist for the 2008 Carnegie Medal, Landman's U.S. debut takes its inspiration fro ...More |
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2009 (Storyteller Award) |
The wheat doll |
Alison L. Randall ; illustrated by Bill Farnsworth.
Book list Based on events that took place in rural nineteenth-century Utah, this story should resonate with t...More |
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2007 (Western Novel) |
The Night Journal |
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Elizabeth Crook
Publishers Weekly At age 37, Meg Mabry, a single, overworked medical engineer, still hasn't found her pl...More |
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2007 (Young Readers) |
Geronimo |
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Joseph Bruchac
School Library Journal: Gr 5-10–Starting in 1886 with Geronimo's final surrender, this novel is told from the ...More |
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2006 (Western Novel - tie) |
Camp Ford: A Western Story |
Johnny D. Boggs
Book list In 1946 99-year-old Win McNaughton is an honored guest at a World Series game in St. Louis. He has...More |
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2006 (Western Novel - tie) |
The Undertakers Wife |
Loren D. Estleman
Publishers Weekly: The Master Executioner, his 2001 tour de force, Estleman picks an unpopular profession and dr ...More |
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2006 (Novel of the West) |
High Country: A Novel |
Willard Wyman
Library Journal: Wyman's first novel tells the tale of Ty Hardin, a quiet young man who becomes a kind of legend ...More |
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2006 (Young Readers) |
Black Storm Comin |
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Diane Lee Wilson
School Library Journal: Gr 6-10 –In 1860, Colton Wescott, 12, is determined to keep his Sacramento-bound famil ...More |
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2005 (Western Novel) |
Buy the Chief a Cadillac |
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Rick Steber
Publishers Weekly
: In 1954, the U.S. government, under the Indian Termination Act, "incorporated" a great ...More |
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2005 (Novel of the West) |
People of the Raven |
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Michael Gear
Publishers Weekly
: The Gears' 12th entry (after 2003's People of the Owl) in their richly imagined series of novels ...More |
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2005 (Young Readers) |
Fire in the Hole |
Mary Cronk Farrell
School Library Journal
: Gr 4-8–An adventure based on an incident that took place in Idaho in 1899. Mick is ad ...More |
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2004 (Novel of the West) |
So Wild A Dream |
Win Blevins
Book list Life in rural Pennsylvania in the 1820s doesn't hold much appeal for young, adventurous, ambit...More |
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2003 (Western Novel) |
The Chili Queen |
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Sandra Dallas
Publishers Weekly
: A whorehouse madam, a bank robber, a mail-order bride and a former slave romp around 1860s New M ...More |
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2003 (Novel of the West) |
Perma Red |
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Debra Magpie Earling
Library Journal
: In this beautiful first novel, set on the Flathead Reservation of Montana in the 1940s, Earling tr ...More |
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2003 (Young Readers) |
The Big Burn |
Jeanette Ingold
Publishers Weekly
: Ingold (Pictures, 1918) captures the momentum of a wildfire in this historical novel about " ...More |
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2002 (Best Western) |
The Way of the Coyote |
Elmer Kelton
Publishers Weekly
: As gratifying as a McMurtry side plot and with more gritty excitement than just about any Hollyw ...More |
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2002 (Novel of the West) |
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint |
Brady Udall
Library Journal
: "If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years ol ...More |
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2002 (Best Juvenile) |
Rockbuster |
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Gloria Skurzynski,
Publishers Weekly
: Skurzynski's (Spider's Voice) taut historical novel examines the plight and maturation of a boy ...More |
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2001 (Western Novel) |
Summer of Pearls |
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Mike Blakley
Publishers Weekly
: Homespun western charm flavors Blakely's slim historical fiction about one of the many "pea ...More |
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2001 (Novel of the West) |
The Gates of the Alamo |
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Stephen Harrigan
Publishers Weekly
: Settling his fictional cast firmly at the heart of 19th-century Texas, novelist Harrigan (Jacob' ...More |
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2001 (Best Juvenile) |
The Midnight Train Home |
Erika Tamar
School Library Journal
: Gr 5-7-Deirdre O'Rourke, 11, doesn't understand what's happening when she and her brothers, ...More |
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2000 (Western Novel) |
Masterson |
Richard S. Wheeler
Book list In 1920, legendary gunfighter Bat Masterson is a successful New York newspaper columnist. His colle...More |
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2000 (Novel of the West) |
Prophet Annie |
Ellen Recknor
Publishers Weekly
: Spur Award-winner Recknor (Leaving Missouri) offers a daffy, highly original western told in the ...More |
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2000 (Best Juvenile) |
Wrango |
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Brian Burks
Library Journal
: Gr 4-8-A fictionalized biography of black cowboy George McJunkin's first cattle drive at age 16, W ...More |
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1999 (Western Novel) |
Journey of the Dead |
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Loren Estleman
School Library Journal
: YA-In this elegantly conceived western, Billy the Kid's death haunts his killer until such ...More |
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1999 (Best Juvenile) |
Petey |
Ben Mikaelson
Publishers Weekly
: A writer admired for fast-paced adventure stories like Stranded and Sparrow Hawk Red takes on a ...More |
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1998 (Western Novel) |
The Kiowa Verdict |
Cynthia Haseloff
Publishers Weekly
: Mining a critical but little-known event in the history of relations between Native Americans an ...More |
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1998 (Novel of the West) |
Comanche Moon |
Larry McMurtry
Library Journal
: This prequel to the classic Lonesome Dove (LJ 7/85) follows Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae throu ...More |
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1998 (Best Juvenile) |
Danger Along the Ohio |
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Patricia Willis
School Library Journal
: Gr 4-7--Willis combines the suspense of a page-turner, the danger level of a thriller, the ...More |
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1996 (Novel of the West) |
Sierra |
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Richard Wheeler
Library Journal
: Ulysses McQueen leaves his wife on the family farm in Iowa to seek his fortune in the California g ...More |
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1996 (Best Juvenile) |
Far North |
Will Hobbs
Publisher's Weekly
: Those insatiable fans of Hatchet are the likeliest audience for this winter survival tale, whic ...More |
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