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Westerners International
Awards - 2007
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 2007 award
recipients who were honored at the meeting in Salt Lake
City, Utah, October 2008. The 2008 award
winners will be announced in August and will receive
their awards at the meeting planned in Denver, Colorado,
this coming October 2009. Forms for the 2008
contest will be available in January 2009.
2007 Award Winners
Co-Founders Best book Award
1st Place:
Robert W.
Larson, Denver Posse
Gall: Lakota War Chief
University of Oklahoma Press
2nd Place:
Andrew Wallace,
Prescott Corral, and Richard H. Hevly
From Texas to San Diego in 1851:
The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse,
Surgeon–Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition.
Texas Tech University Press
3rd Place:
Gregory
Michno, Fort Collins Corral
The Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake
Conflict, 1864-1868
Caxton Press
Coke Wood Award for Monographs and Articles
1st Place:
Joseph B.
Herring, Potomac Corral
2nd Place:
Stan Brown,
Tucson Corral
3rd Place:
Kevin J. Mullen,
San Francisco Corral
Philip A. Danielson Award for Best Programs
1st Place:
Anthony Romero,
Silver City Corral
2nd Place:
Dr. Francis
Flavin, Potomac Corral
3rd Place:
Dick Bowerman,
Prescott Corral (tie)
Christopher Johnson, Fort Abraham Lincoln Corral
(tie)
Fred Olds Western Poetry Award
1st Place:
Bernice Landers,
Jedediah Smith Corral
2nd Place:
Gary Turner, Los
Angeles Corral
Heads Up Award
Corrals Organized Prior to 1973
Potomac Corral
Dr. Francis Flavin,
Sheriff
Corrals Organized 1973 and Later
Fort Abraham Lincoln Corral,
Bismarck, North Dakota
Darrel Pittman,
Sheriff
Overseas Corrals
Texas Rangers Corral,
Prague, Czech Republic
Jiri “Danny” Dvorak,
Sheriff
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