Western Heritage Award (Wrangler Award) (1962-2006)

The Western Heritage Awards are presented by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum as a way to preserve exceptional stories of the West.

Click on the title to read a short summary of the book, and to place a hold.

The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Western Heritage Award.

Buffalo Calf Road Woman: The Story of a Warrior of the Little Bighorn by Rosemary Agonito and Joseph Agonito (2006)

And Not to Yield by Randy Lee Eickhoff (2005)

Spark on the Prairie: The Trial of the Kiowa Chiefs, by Johnny Boggs (2004)

Moon of Bitter Cold by Frederick J. Chiaventone (2003)

The Master Executioner by Loren D. Estleman (2002)

The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan (2001)

The Contract Surgeon by Dan O'Brien (2000)

Journey of the Dead by Loren D. Estleman (1999)

The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew (1998)

Out of Eden by Kate Lehrer (1997)

A Sweetness to the Soul by Jane Kirkpatrick (1996)

Fellini in the Sacred Realm by Max Bluefeather Evans (1995)

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (1994)

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1993)

Set for Life by Judith Freeman (1992)

Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry (1991)

Broken Eagle by Chad Oliver (1990)

The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout (1989)

The Man Who Rode Midnight by Elmer Kelton (1988)

Heart of the Country by Greg Matthews (1987)

Playing Catch-Up by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (1986)

English Creek by Ivan Doig (1985)

The Long Riders' Winter by Frank Calkins (1984)

No award given for 1983.

No award given for 1982.

No award given for 1981.

Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill (1980)

The Good Old Boys by Elmer Kelton (1979)

Buffalo Woman by Dorothy M. Johnson (1978)

No award given for 1977.

No award given for 1976.

Centennial by James A. Michener (1975)

The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton (1974)

Chiricahua by Will Henry (1973)

Pike's Peak by Frank Waters (1972)

Arfive by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (1971)

The White Man's Road by Benjamin Capps (1970)

The Buffalo Runners by Fred Grove (1969)

North to Yesterday by Robert Flynn (1968)

They Came to a Valley by Bill Gulick (1967)

Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher (1966)

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger (1965)

Honor Thy Father by Robert A. Roripaugh (1964)

Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey (1963)

The Shadow Catcher by James D. Horan (1962)