Track award
The Spur Award is a literary prize in the Western literature genre that has been awarded annually in several categories by the Western Writers of America Association since 1953, with a few interruptions . Not only are novels awarded, but also cover illustrators and western biographies.
Selection of the award winners
- 1955 - Wayne D. Overholser for The Violent Land
- 1965 - Willis Todhunter Ballard for Gold in California and Vardis Fisher for Mountain Man
- 1967 - Chad Oliver for The Wolf is My Brother
- 1969 - Louis L'Amour for Down the Long Hills
- 1973 - Lewis B. Patten for A Killing in Kiowa
- 1986 - Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove
- 1992 - Richard Matheson for Journal of the Gun Years
- 2003 - Sandra Dallas for The Chili Queen
- 2016 - TJ Stiles for Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America