Corrals & Posses

2010 Award Winners

Co-Founders "Best Book" Award

1st Place: Jim Hoy, Kansas Corral
Cowboy’s Lament
Texas Tech University Press

2nd Place: John Boessenecker, San Francisco Corral
BANDIDO: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
University of Oklahoma Press

3rd Place: Paul H. Carlson, Llano Estacado Corral
Myth, Memory, and Massacre
Texas Tech University Press


"Coke" Wood Award for Monographs and Articles

1st Place (tie): Robert J. Chandler, San Francisco Corral
1st Place (tie): Barbara Handy-Marchello, Fort Abraham Lincoln Corral

2nd Place: Paul W. Matthews, Indian Territory Posse


Philip A. Danielson Award for Best Programs

1st Place: Phil Brigandi, Los Angeles Corral

2nd Place: Patricia A. Etter, Scottsdale Corral

3rd Place: Anna Lee Ames Frohlich, Denver Posses


Fred Olds Western Poetry Award

1st Place: Pablo aka Paul McClure, San Dimas Corral

2nd Place: Bernice Landers, Jedediah Smith Corral


Heads Up Award

Corrals Organized Prior to 1973
Los Angeles Corral, Los Angeles, California
Michael Patris, Sheriff

Corrals Organized 1973 and Later
San Dimas Corral, San Dimas, California
David Harbin, Sheriff

Overseas Corrals
Linz Corral, Linz, Austria
Hans Jorg Ratzenboeck, Sheriff


Best Doctoral Dissertation in Western U. S. History by a graduate student member of Phi Alpha Theta
Margaret Bickers, PhD
Kansas State University
Three Cultures, Four Hooves and One River: The Canadian River in Texas and New Mexico, 1848-1939


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