The Caroline Bancroft History Prize

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2018     Dick Kreck, for his journalism, his historical writings, and his support of the Western History collection
2016     Warrior nation : a history of the Red Lake Ojibwe by Anton Treuer
2015     Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the Mandan people by Elizabeth A. Fenn
2014     The road to Chinese exclusion : the Denver riot, 1880 election, and rise of the West by Liping Zhu
2013     After camp : portraits in midcentury Japanese American life and politics by Greg Robinson
2012     Valentine T. McGillycuddy : Army surgeon, agent to the Sioux by Candy Vyvey Moulton
2011     Down country : the Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782 by Lucy R. Lippard
2010     The garden of invention : Luther Burbank and the business of breeding plants by Jane S. Smith
2009     Killing for coal : America's deadliest labor war by Thomas G. Andrews
2008     Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the Henequen-Wheat complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 by Sterling Evans
2007     Norwegians on the prairie : ethnicity and the development of the country town by Odd Sverre Lovoll
2006     Women of the Northern Plains : gender and settlement on the homestead frontier, 1870-1930 by Barbara Handy-Marchello
2005     Beasts of the field : a narrative history of California farmworkers, 1769-1913 by Richard Steven Street
2004     One vast winter count : the Native American West before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway
2003     Blood of the prophets : Brigham Young and the massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley
2002     A river running west : the life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster
2001     Pioneer photographers of the far west : a biographical dictionary, 1840-1865 by Peter E. Palmquist
2000     Jefferson and the Indians : the tragic fate of the first Americans by Anthony F. C. Wallace
1999     The contested plains : Indians, goldseekers, & the rush to Colorado by Elliott West
1998     Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination by Charles J. Shindo
1997     Big bluestem : journey into the tall grass by Annick Smith
1996     Independent spirits : women painters of the American West, 1890-1945 by Patricia Trenton
1995     Antigua California : mission and colony on the peninsular frontier, 1697-1768 by Harry W. Crosby
1994     Trials and triumphs : a Colorado portrait of the Great Depression, with FSA photographs by Stephen J. Leonard
1993     The Spanish frontier in North America by David J. Weber
1992     When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramón A. Gutiérrez
1991     Thomas O. Larkin : a life of patriotism and profit in old California by Harlan Hague
1990     A story that stands like a dam : Glen Canyon and the struggle for the soul of the West by Russell Martin
1989     Growing up with the country : childhood on the far-western frontier by Elliott West
1988     The Protestant clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915 by Ferenc Morton Szasz
1987     The mythic West in twentieth-century America by Robert G. Athearn