The Joan Paterson Kerr Book Award

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2018     Lakota performers in Europe : their culture and the artifacts they left behind by Steve Friesen
2017     Branding the American West : paintings and films, 1900-1950, edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme
2015     A Russian American photographer in Tlingit country : Vincent Soboleff in Alaska by Sergei Kan
2013     Colors of confinement : rare Kodachrome photographs of Japanese American incarceration in World War II by Eric L. Muller
2011     Charles Deas and 1840s America by Carol Clark
2009     Charles M. Russell : a catalogue raisonné by B. Byron Price
2007     A Northern Cheyenne album, photographs by Thomas B. Marquis, edited by Dr. Margot Liberty ; commentary by John Woodenlegs
2005     Karl Bodmer's North American prints, edited by Brandon K. Ruud ; annotations by Marsha V. Gallagher ; essays by Ron Tyler & Brandon K. Ruud ; foreword by J. Brooks Joyner
2003     Looking both ways : heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people, edited by Aron L. Crowell, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar
2001     Long day's journey : the steamboat & stagecoach era in the northern West by Carlos Schwantes
1999     Yellowstone and the biology of time by Mary Meagher and Douglas B. Houston
1997     Frederic Remington : a catalogue raisonné of paintings, watercolors and drawings by Peter Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster
1995     Eadweard Muybridge and the photographic panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880, edited by David Harris with Eric Sandweiss
1993     Art of the American Indian frontier : The Chandler-Pohrt collection by David W. Penny