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