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Westerners International
Awards - 2005
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.
2005
AWARD WINNERS
Co-Founders Best
Book Award
1st Place:
James D. McLaird, Dakotah Corral
Calamity Jane: The
Woman and the Legend
2nd Place:
John W. Robinson, San Dimas Corral
Gateways to
Southern California
3rd Place:
Allan Radbourne, English Westerners Society
MICKEY FREE: Apache
Captive, Interpreter and Indian Scout
Dr. Albert M.
Shumate Award
Kenneth E. and
Carol M. Pauley, Los Angeles Corral
San Fernando Rey de
Espana: An Illustrated History
Coke Wood Award for
Monographs and Articles
1st Place: Robert
J. Chandler, San Francisco Corral
2nd Place:
Juti Winchester, Pahaska Corral
3rdPlace: Roger L.
Nichols, Adobe Corral
Philip A. Danielson
Award for Best Programs
1st Place:
Roger L. Nichols, Adobe Corral
2nd Place:
Ken Gaunt, Denver Posse
3rd Place:
Jeremy Johnston, Pawhaska Corral
Fred Olds Western
Poetry Award
1st Place:
Bernice Landers, Jedidiah Smith Corral
“Hank”
2nd Place:
Alvin G. Davis, Llano Estacado Corral
Cowboy Poetry
Heads Up Award
For Corrals organized
prior to 1973
Los Angeles Corral,
Ken Pauley,
sheriff
For Corrals organized
1973 and later
Adobe Corral,
Tucson, AZ,
Dino Natta, sheriff
Overseas Corrals
Texas Rangers
Corral,
Czech Republic, Jiri ‘Danny’ Dvorak, sheriff
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