The Caughey-Western History Association Prize

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2018     God's red son : the Ghost Dance religion and the making of modern America by Louis Warren
2017     Mesa of sorrows: a history of the Awat'ovi massacre by James F. Brooks
2016     Strangers on familiar soil : rediscovering the Chile-California connection by Edward Dallam Melillo; The sea is my country : the maritime world of the Makahs by Joshua Reid
2015     Power lines : Phoenix and the making of the modern Southwest by Andrew Needham
2014     Beyond Pontiac's shadow : Michilimackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763 by Keith R. Widder
2013     This Indian country : American Indian political activists and the place they made by Frederick E. Hoxie
2012     Empires, nations, and families : a history of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde
2011     Angel Island : immigrant gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
2010     The last Indian war : the Nez Perce story by Elliott West
2009     The Comanche empire by Pekka Hämäläinen
2008     Charles M. Russell : a catalogue raisonné by B. Byron Price
2007     John Sutter : a life on the North American frontier by Albert L. Hurtado
2006     Buffalo Bill's America : William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis Warren
2005     The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee by Jeffrey Ostler
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