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Book Award Winners March 2018
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Spur Awards Grab your gear and lasso one of these award winning westerns. The Spur Awards began in 1953 in order to recognize excellence in western literature. In 1969, the award expanded to include TV scrips and in 1978 movie scrips were added.
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Stranded : a Story of Frontier Survivalby Matthew P MayoIn autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone. Facing certain death, and with blizzards, frostbite, and gnawing hunger her only companions, she endures repeated attacks by grizzly bears, wolves, and mountain lions. Janette rises to each challenge, relying on herself more than she knew possible. Her only comfort comes in writing in her diary, where she shares her fears, her travails, and her dwindling hopes"
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The Coming : a novel
by David Osborne
Daytime Smoke, the son of explorer William Clark and a Nez Perce Native American woman, describes the deep friendship between the tribe and white Americans that lasted until gold was discovered on their land in 1860.
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. (true crime). Simultaneous.
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Silver city : A Novel of the American West
by Jeff Guinn
A follow-up to Buffalo Trail finds reluctant hero Cash McLendon traveling to Arizona Territory to reclaim the woman he loves, who is kidnapped by an enforcer for Cash's corrupt former father-in-law.
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The Violent Landby Wayne D. OverholserBig Jim Perrin is gobbling up land across Oregon with the help of his friend, gunman Dan Nathan, but when Nathan's conscience begins to bother him, he is no longer certain he can be loyal to his employer. 1954 Best Novel
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The no-return trailby Sonia LevitinA fictionalized account of the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson expedition which included seventeen-year-old Nancy Kelsey, the first American woman to journey from Missouri to California. 1978 Juvenile Novel
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Gone the dreams and dancing by Douglas C. JonesFollows the adventures of Kwahadi, a Comanche chief desperately trying to save his people, and Liverpool Morgan, a tough and tender white man who struggles to understand the old ways while helping the tribe's transition. 1984 Historical Novel
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John Stone and the Choctaw Kidby Wayne DavisEager to die in his saddle and out under the mountain sky, enfeebled John Stone calls upon a friend from his gunslinging days, but when a woman comes between them, he must put off dying and fight. 1992 Medicine Pipe Bearer Award
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