Congratulations to them all.
I am particularly pleased that one of the stories from Western Fictioneers' first anthology, The Traditional West, won for best short story- Rod Miller's "The Death of Delgado."
2012 Spur Award Winners and Finalists
BEST WESTERN LONG NOVEL
Winner:
Stephen Harrigan. Remember Ben Clayton, Alfred A. Knopf
Finalists:
Thomas Fox Averill, Rode, University of New Mexico Press
James Lee Burke, Feast Day of Fools, Simon & Schuster
BEST WESTERN SHORT NOVEL
Winner:
Johnny D. Boggs, Legacy of a Lawman, Five Star Publishing
Finalists:
Joe Henry. Lime Creek, Random House
Alan C. Huffines, Killed by Indians 1871, Texas Wesleyan University Press
BEST ORIGINAL MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Winner:
Johnny D. Boggs, West Texas Kill, Pinnacle Books/Kensington
Finalist:
Cameron Judd, The Long Hunt, Signet/Penguin
Dusty Richards, Between Hell and Texas, Pinnacle Books/Kensington
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Winner:
Meg Mims, Double Crossing, Astraea Press
Finalists:
Tammy Hinton, Unbridled, Roots & Branches/AWOC Publishing
Stephen B. Smart, Whispers of the Greybull, High Mule Publishing
BEST WESTERN NONFICTION – HISTORICAL (TO 1900)
Winner:
David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, The Mormon Rebellion, University of Oklahoma Press
Finalists:
Paul L. Hedren, After Custer, University of Oklahoma Press
Richard White, Railroaded, W.W. Norton & Company
BEST WESTERN NONFICTION – CONTEMPORARY (1900 TO PRESENT)
Winner:
Frederick H. Swanson, The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg, University of Utah Press
Finalists:
Jim Kristofic, Navajos Wear Nikes, University of New Mexico Press
Rachel St. John, Line in the Sand, Princeton University Press
BEST WESTERN NONFICTION – BIOGRAPHY
Winner:
Paul Magid, George Crook, University of Oklahoma Press
Finalists:
Louis Kraft, Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek, University of Oklahoma Pres
Richard D. White, Jr. Will Rogers: A Political Life, Texas Tech University Press
BEST WESTERN SHORT FICTION STORY
Winner: (TIE)
Rod Miller, “The Death of Delgado,” Western Fictioneers
Clay Reynolds, “The Deacon’s Horse,” Ink Brush Press
Finalists:
Shann Ray, “The Great Divide,” Graywolf Press
BEST WESTERN SHORT NONFICTION
Winner:
Paul Andrew Hutton, “The Alamo, Well Remembered,” Wild West Magazine
Finalists:
John R. Wunder, “That No Thorn Will Pierce Our Friendship,” Western Historical Quarterly
Mark Dworkin, “The Wild West’s Premier Mythmaker,” Wild West Magazine
BEST WESTERN JUVENILE FICTION
Winner:
Candace Simar, Birdie, North Star Press of St. Cloud
Finalists:
Johnny D. Boggs, South by Southwest, Five Star Publishing/Gale
Nancy Oswald, Rescue in Poverty Gulch, Filter Press
BEST WESTERN JUVENILE NONFICTION
Winner:
Don Nardo, Migrant Mother, Compass Point Books/Capstone
Finalists:
Jean A. Lukesh, Wolves in Blue, Field Mouse Productions
Linda L. Osmundson, How the West Was Drawn, Pelican Publishing
BEST WESTERN DRAMA SCRIPT (FICTION)
Winner:
John Logan, Rango, Nickelodeon Movies
Finalists:
Jonathan Raymond, Meek’s Cut-Off
Miguel Barros, Blackthorn, Rogue Pictures
BEST WESTERN DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT (NONFICTION)
Winner:
Cindy Meehl, Director, and Julie Goldman, Producer, Buck, Cedar Creek Productions
No finalists
STORYTELLER AWARD
Winner:
Bryan Langdo, Tornado Slim and the Magic Cowboy Hat, Marshall Cavendish
Finalists:
Mary Casanova. The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Mary Dodson Wade, Henrietta King, Bright Sky Press
BEST WESTERN POEM
Winner:
Rod Miller, “Tabula Rasa,” Port Yonder Press
Finalists:
Floyd Collins, “What Harvest: Poems on the Siege & Battle of the Alamo,” Somondoco Press
Larry D. Thomas, “The Red, Candle-lit Darkness,” El Grito del Lobo Press
BEST WESTERN AUDIOBOOK
No Award Given
BEST WESTERN SONG
Winner:
Jon Chandler. “Morning Star Moon,” Western Dog Publishing
Finalists:
Wylie Gustafson, “Raven on the Wind,” Two Medicine Music
Bob Thomas, “The Cowboy,” Easy Bob Music
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