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The Spur Awards began in 1953, the same year the WWA was founded. An author need not be a member of the WWA to receive a Spur Award. Among previous Spur Award winners are Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove , Michael Blake for Dances with Wolves , Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist , and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalkers .
The Spur Award for Best Western Novel is a prize given by the Western Writers of America as part of the annual Spur Awards. The category was introduced in 1953, when it was known simply as the "Novel" award. A second category for novel-length prose fiction, the Historical Novel award, was introduced in 1972.
The Spur Award for Best Novel of the West is a category formerly used by the Western Writers of America (WWA) as part of the annual Spur Awards.It was introduced for the awards' 1988 iteration, replacing the earlier category of Best Historical Novel.
Jun. 17—Veteran singer-songwriter Syd Masters had known for years that the Western Writers of America presented a Spur Award for Best Western Song. He just never got around to entering his songs ...
Skinwalkers, his seventh Leaphorn and Chee title, won a 1987 Spur Award and a 1988 Anthony Award and was adapted for PBS Mystery! It’s the first time Leaphorn and Chee work together because ...
This is a list of the works of fiction which have won the Spur Award for Best Short Fiction: 1953 - Short Story: "Gun Job" by Thomas Thompson; 1954 - Short Story: "Blood on the Sun" by Thomas Thompson; 1955 - Short Story: "Bad Company" by S. Omar Barker; 1956 - Short Story: "Lost Sister" by Dorothy M. Johnson
Elmer Kelton (April 29, 1926 [1] – August 22, 2009 [2]) was an American author, known for his Westerns.He was born in Andrews County, Texas.. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1948.
"The National Golden Spur Award is the most prestigious national honor given to one person by the ranching and livestock industries," Jim Bret Campbell, executive director of the Ranching Heritage ...