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Westerners International
Awards - 2004
Each year Westerners International conducts an awards
contest for members. Winners are presented their
certificates, checks and plaques during the WI Breakfast
held during the Western History Association Meeting each
October. Listed below are the 2008 award
recipients who were honored at the meeting in Denver,
Colorado, October 2008. The 2009 award
winners will be announced in August 2010 and will receive
their awards at the meeting planned in Incline Village
(Lake Tahoe), Nevada,
this coming October 13-16, 2010. Forms for the 2009
contest will be available in January 2010.
Co-Founders Best
Book Award
1st Place,
Norman
E. Tutorow,
San Francisco Corral
The Governor: The
Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford, A California
Colossus
2nd Place,
Charles H. Harris, III, and Louis R.
Sadler,Rio Bravo Corral
The Texas Rangers
and The Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade,
1910-1920
3rd Place,
Kristie Miller, Flagstaff Corral
Isabella Greenway:
An Enterprising Woman
Coke Wood Award for
Monographs and Articles
1st Place
Erik Berg, Scottsdale Corral
2nd Place,
Giles Toll, Denver Posse
3rd Place,
Jerry Keenan, Boulder Corral
Philip A. Danielson
Award for Best Programs
1st Place,
Bruce Fee, Prescott Corral
2nd Place,
Peter Hassrick, Pahaska Corral
3rd Place,
Walt Davis, Palo Duro Corral
Fred Olds Western
Poetry Award
1st Place,
Jane Ambrose Molton, Pikes Peak Corral
Turning to Face the
Wind
2nd Place
Loren Wendt, Los Angeles Corral
“An Eventful Night in
Tombstone”
Heads Up Award
For Corrals organized
prior to 1973
Los Angeles Corral,
Paul H. Rippens,
sheriff
For Corrals organized
1973 and after
Pahaska Corral,
Cody WY, Sarah Boehme, sheriff
Foreign Corrals
Texas Rangers Corral,
Czech Republic, Jerry “Danny” Dvorak, sheriff
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