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Westerners International
Awards - 2008
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 2009. 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.
2008 Award Winners
Co-Founders
Best Book Award
1st
Place: Richard
E. Turley Jr.,
Utah Westerners
With co-authors Ronald W. Walker, Glenn M. Leonard
Massacre at Mountain
Meadows
Oxford University Press
2nd
Place: John L.
Kessell, Durango Corral
Texas Tech University
Press
Pueblos, Spaniards and the Kingdom of New Mexico
University of Oklahoma
Press
3rd
Place:
John H. Monnett,
Boulder Corral
Where a Hundred
Soldiers Were Killed
University of New Mexico
Press
Coke Wood
Award for Monographs and Articles
1st
Place: Charlotte
Hinger, Fort Collins Corral
2nd
Place: Janolyn
Lo Vecchio, Adobe Corral
3rd
Place: John H.
Monnet, Boulder Corral
(tie)
Ralph H.
Brock, Llano Estacado Corral
Philip A.
Danielson Award for Best Programs
1st
Place: Chip
Cartwright, Fort Abraham Lincoln Corral
2nd
Place: Abe
Hoffman, Los Angeles Corral
3rd
Place: Norman
Delucchi, Prescott Corral
Fred Olds
Western Poetry Award
1st
Place:
Los Angeles Corral for “Fandango
Californio 2008, Cowboy Poetry & Limericks II”
2nd
Place: Mike
Boothe, Potomac Corral
Heads Up Award
Corrals Organized
Prior to 1973
Prescott Corral,
Prescott, Arizona
Don Shaffer,
Sheriff
Corrals Organized
1973 and Later
Jedediah Smith Corral,
Hot Springs, South Dakota
Bernice Landers,
Sheriff
Overseas Corrals
Pony
Express Corral,
Czech Republic
Jelena Becova,
Sheriff
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