Caughey Western History Association Prize

The Caughey Western History Association Prize is given annually by the Western History Association to the best book published the previous year on the American West. The winner receives $2,500 and a certificate.

Winners
  • 2021 - Alice Baumgartner,[1] South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
  • 2020 - Maurice Crandall, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912
  • 2019 - Monica Muñoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
  • 2018 - Louis Warren, God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
  • 2017 - James F. Brooks, Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre
  • 2016 - Edward Dallam Melillo, Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection
  • 2016 - Joshua Reid, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
  • 2015 - Andrew Needham - Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
  • 2014 - Keith R. Widder - Beyond Pontiac's Shadow: Michilmackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763
  • 2013 - Frederick E. Hoxie - This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
  • 2012 - Anne F. Hyde - Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
  • 2011 - Erika Lee and Judy Yung - Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
  • 2010 - Elliott West - The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
  • 2009 - Pekka Hämäläinen - The Comanche Empire
  • 2008 - B. Byron Price - Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné
  • 2007 - Albert L. Hurtado - John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
  • 2006 - Louis S. Warren - Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show
  • 2005 - Jeffrey Ostler - The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
  • 2004 - Colin G. Calloway - One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark
  • 2003 - Will Bagley - Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
  • 2002 - Donald Worster - A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
  • 2001 - Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher - The American West: A New Interpretive History
  • 2000 - Walter Nugent - Into the West: The Story of Its People
  • 1999 - Elliott West - The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
  • 1998 - Malcolm J Rorhbough - Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
  • 1997 - Richard W. Etulain - Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History and Art
  • 1996 - David Wallace Adams - Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
  • 1995 - Clyde A. Milner III, Carol A. O’Connor, Martha A. Sandweiss, eds. - The Oxford History of the American West
  • 1994 - Robert M. Utley - The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
  • 1993 - David J. Weber The Spanish Frontier in North America

Prior to 1993, it was known as the Western History Association Prize for a “distinguished body of writing”

References
  1. https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/people/alice-baumgartner
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