West Texas Historical Association winners

Winners of the Mrs. Percy Jones Award for Best Article in the Yearbook

2013- David Gracy, Cows Have Calves: the Hesitant Beginning and Remarkable Career of Cowboy, Cattleman, Rancher George Washing Littlefield

2012-

2011- Patrick Crawford, Tracking Ancient Beasts: The Saga of the Glen Rose Dinosaur Footprints

2010- John Caraway, Dallas Scarborough: Abilene Attorney and Civic Leader

2009- David Murrah

2008- Kregg Fehr, Harbingers of Change: Wind Turbines and the Dawning of a New Age in Texas Energy History

2007- Allan J. Kuethe and José Manuel Serrano Álvarez, The San Sabá Presidio and Spain's Frontier Policy in North America

2006- Glen Ely

2005- Sandy Hoover, Searching for Meaning in the Llano Estacado

2004- Paul Carlson

2003- Kevin Sweeney

2002- Mike Cox

2001- Lou Rodenberger

2000- Lawrence Clayton

1999- Sean J. Flynn

1998- Jack Becker

1997- Paul Wright

1996- Laura Anne Wimberley

1995- Leo S. Bielinski

1994- Donald W. Whisenhunt

1993- J. B. Honea

1992- Roger Tuller

1991- Paul H. Carlson

1990- Joseph W. McKnight

1989- Arnoldo De Leon

1988- J'Nell Pate

1987- Richard Mason

1986- Delmar Hayter

1985- Benton R. White

1984- Steven F. Mehls

1983- Sandra L. Myres

1982- Paul H. Carlson

1981- Gary S. Elbow and Simone Gordon

1980- Rupert N. Richardson

1979- Ralph Smith

1978- Paul H. Carlson

1977- H. Allen Anderson

1976- Ralph Smith

1975- David J. Murrah

1974- Frank B. Counselman

1973- Ralph Smith and Elton Green

1972- Charles Marler

Elmer Kelton Award for Best Creative or Fiction Work on West Texas (only years awarded are listed.) *This award was previously called the R. C. Crane Award for Fiction.

2013- Patrick Dearen, To Hell or the Pecos

R. C. Crane Award for Best Creative or Fiction Work on West Texas (only years awarded are listed.) *The Crane Award was revamped in 2013 to become the R. C. Crane Heritage Service Award.

2005- Patrick Dearen, When the Sky Rained Dust
2002- Preston Lewis, Blanca is My Name
2001- Preston Lewis, They Call Me Old Blue
2000- Walt McDonald and Janet Neugebauer, Whatever the Wind Delivers

Rupert N. Richardson Award for the Best Book on West Texas

2013- Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf, Big Bend's Ancient and Modern Past
2012- Patrick Dearen, Devil's River: Treacherous Twin to the Pecos, 1535-1900
2011- Glen Ely, Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity
2010- Paul Carlson and Tom Crum, Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker.
2009- Bret Cruse, Battles of the Red River War: Archaeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874.
2008- Bill Neal, Abilene, for "From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw Wes." published by Texas Tech Press
2007- Bill Neal, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier
2006- Jim Matthews, Fort Concho: A History and a Guide
2005- Tom Alexander, Rattlesnake Bomber Base
2004- Marsha Pfluger, Across Time and Territory: A Walk Through the National Ranching Heritage Center
2002- Jo Ella Powell Exley, Frontier Blood: the Saga of the Parker Family
2001- Jim Pfluger and Bob Moorehouse, Pitchfork Country: the Photography of Bob Moorehouse
2000- Paul H. Carlson, ed., The Cowboy Way: an Exploration of History and Culture
1999- Frederick W. Rathjen, Texas Panhandle Frontier (2nd edition)
1998- John Miller Morris, Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
1997- Paul H. Carlson, Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush
1996- Ty Cashion, A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fort Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887

West Texas Historical Association Outstanding Student Essay Award

2013- Joshua Logsdon, Angelo State University
2012- aunders, McMurray University

2008- Ruth Ann Shirley, McMurray University

2007- Tracy Stewart, West Texas A&M University

2006- John McCullough, Texas Tech University

2005- Nicholas Pruitt, Wayland Baptist University

2004- Ashley Armes

2003- David Holt

2002- Alexander Soto Cano, Angelo State University

2001- Dana Magill, Texas Tech University

2000- Scott Sosebee, Texas Tech University

1999- Gary Lindsey, Texas Tech University

1998- Ed Tinney, Angelo State University

1997- no award given

1996- Carolyn Griffith, Hardin-Simmons University

1995- Christie R. Wyse, Texas Tech University

Ernest Wallace Grant- Graduate Research on West Texas History

2011 - Brandon Schuler

2005- Leland Turner

William Curry Holden Research Award

2011 - Robert Hall
2010- Troy Ainsworth
2008- Leland Turner
2005- Gene Preuss
2003- Kevin Sweeney