Current Award Winners

2023 WESTERNERS INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
(Awarded in 2024)


Co-Founders Best Book Award

First Place
Richard E. Turley, Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown
“Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath”
Oxford University Press 2023
Utah Westerners

Second Place (Tie)
Paul Carlson
“Heaven’s Harsh Tableland: A New History of the Llano Estacado”
Texas A&M University Press 2023
Llano Estacado Corral

Second Place (Tie)
Doug Hocking
“Southwest Train Robberies: Hijacking the Tracks Along the Southern Border”
Two Dot Press / Rowman & Littlefield, 2023
Cochise County Corral

Third Place
Frank Brito
“Indians, Latinos, and Confederates, A Western Family: 1598- 1973”
Brand Book 26 , 2023
Los Angeles Corral

“Coke” Wood Award for Historical Monograph or Published Article

First Place
Chuck Lanehart
“Fort Elliott and Old Mebeetie: The Earliest Settlements on the Texas Plains”
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Gannet Publishing, 2023
Llano Estacado Corral

Second Place (Tie)
Richard Sola and Dean Kiefer
“Welcome to Our World Professor Bretz”
The Pacific Northwesterner , 2023
Spokane Corral

Second Place (tie)
Geprge Vam Ottem
“The Omdogempis Agroculture in Cochise County, Arizona”
Cochise County Historical Journal, 2023
Cochise County Corral

Third Place
Renee Jean
“Nearly 90 Years Later, Mystery of United Airlines Crash Near
Cheyenne Still Motivates Wyoming Man”
Wyoming State Daily, 2023
Cheyenne Corral

Phillip A. Danlelson Award for Best Presentation or Program
(award goes to the hosting corral or posse)

First Place
Palo Dur oCorral
Amarillo, Texas
For program by Laurel K. Vartabedian, “Northern Trails and Western Tales”
March 8, 2023

Second Place
Spokane Corral
Spokane, Washington
For program by Robert Heacock, “Early Missionaries of the Pacific Northwest”
December 21, 2023

Heads Up Award
Large Corral
Cochise County Corral
Sheriff, Doug Hocking
Hosts of Westerners International Gather, Tombstone,
Tombstone, Arizona 2023

Heads Up Award
Smaller Corral
El Paso Corral
Sheriff, Dale Owen
El Paso, Texas

Fred Olds Award for Cowboy Poetry

Bob Spahle
Cochise County Corral
“The Ride,” “Harry the Rooster,” and “The Cowboy Way”
Fremont Street Mail, 2023