Thomas J. Lyon Book Award

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2017     Writing the goodlife : Mexican American literature and the environment by Priscilla Solis Ybarra
2016     Captivating Westerns : the Middle East in the American West by Susan Kollin
2015     The queerness of Native American literature by Lisa Tatonetti
2014     The frontier club : popular westerns and cultural power, 1880-1924 by Christine Bold
2013     In search of first contact : the Vikings of Vinland, the peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American anxiety of discovery by Annette Kolodny
2012     Masculine style : the American West and literary modernism by Daniel Worden
2011     Surfer girls in the new world order by  Krista Comer
2010     Dirty wars : landscape, power, and waste in western American literature by John Beck
2009     Xerophelia : ecocritical explorations in Southwestern literature by Tom Lynch
2008     Bandits, captives, heroines, and saints : cultural icons of Mexico's northwest borderlands by Robert McKee Irwin
2007     The emergence of Mexican America : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U. S. culture by John-Michael Rivera
2006     Ringside seat to a revolution : an underground cultural history of El Paso and Juárez, 1893-1923 by David Dorado Romo
2005     Manifest and other destinies : territorial fictions of the nineteenth-century United States by Stephanie LeMenager
2004     Unsettling the literary West : authenticity and authorship by Nathaniel Lewis
2003     Translating Southwestern landscapes : the making of an Anglo literary region by Audrey Goodman
2002     Edward Abbey : a life by James M. Cahalan
2001     Bret Harte : opening the American literary West by Gary Scharnhorst
2000     Birthing a nation : gender, creativity, and the West in American literature by Susan Rosowski
1999     State of mind : Texas literature and culture by Thomas Pilkington
1998     The great poem of the Earth : a study of the poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril by Andrew Elkins