The 2009 Spur awards

The result for the 2009 Spur Awards given by The Western Writers of America

Best Western Short Novel


Winner:
Another Man's Moccasins
Craig Johnson
Viking / Penguin

Finalist:
Dreams Beneath Your Feet
Win Blevins
Forge Books / Tom Doherty

Finalist:
Killstraight
Johnny Boggs
Five Star


Best Western Long Novel


Winner:
Shavetail
Thomas Cobb
Scribner

Finalist:
Wolves At Our Door
J.P.S. Brown
University of New Mexico Press

Finalist:
The Long Knives are Crying
Joseph M. Marshall III
Fulcrum Publishing


Best Original Mass Market Paperback


Winner:
Trouble at the Redstone
John D. Nesbitt
Dorchester Publishing

Finalist:
The Trespassers
Andrew J. Fenady
Dorchester Publishing

Finalist:
I, Quantrill
Max McCoy
Signet / NAL


Best First Novel

Winner:
God's Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana
Carol A. Buchanan
Book Surge, LLC

Finalist:
Undiscovered Country
Lin Enger
Little, Brown & Company

Finalist:
The Buffalo Rock
Bob Faulkner
Stand Up America, USA


Best Western Nonfiction Biography

Winner:
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America
Meredith Mason Brown
Louisiana State University Press

Finalist:
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Donald Worster
Oxford University Press

Finalist:
Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith
Margot Kahn
University of Oklahoma Press


Best Western Nonfiction Historical

Winner:
Hunting The American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit, and Sport, 1800-1900
Richard C. Rattenbury
Boone and Crockett Club

Finalist:
Frontier Medicine: From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
David Dary
Alfred A. Knopf

Finalist:
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn -The Last Great Battle of the American West
James Donovan
Little, Brown & Company


Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary

Winner:
Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School—Basketball Champions of the World
Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
University of Oklahoma Press

Finalist:
Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876
Jerome A. Greene
University of Oklahoma Press

Finalist:
What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak
David Schweidel and Robert Boswell
Cinco Puntos Press


Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:
"Cornflower Blue"
Susan K. Salzer
Untamed Ink, Lindenwood University

Finalist:
"Mickey Free: The Graphic Novel"
Bob Boze Bell and Paul Andrew Hutton
True West Magazine

Finalist:
"Morning War"
Cotton Smith
The Way of the West, Dorchester


Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:
"Owen Wister's Paladin of the Plains: The Virginian as a Cultural Hero"
David A. Smith
South Dakota History, South Dakota State Historical Society

Finalist:
"More Real than the Indians Themselves: The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States"
Clyde Ellis
Montana The Magazine of Western History

Finalist
"Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade & the Early American West, 1775-1825"
Dan Flores
Montana The Magazine of Western History


Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:
I am Apache
Tanya Landman
Candlewick Press

Finalist:
The Gold Rush Kid
Mary Waldorf
Clarion Books

Finalist:
Her Enemies, Blue and Gray
Ellen Gray Massey
Goldminds Publishing


Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:
The Trial of Standing Bear
Frank Keating, Mike Wimmer (artist)
Oklahoma Heritage Association

Finalist:
A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
Gina Capaldi
Lerner Publishing

Finalist:
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
Sid Fleischman
Harper Collins Children's Books


Storyteller Award

Winner:
The Wheat Doll
Alison L. Randall and Bill Farnsworth (artist)
Peachtree Publishers

Finalist:
Daniel Boone's Great Escape
Michael P. Spradlin, Ard Hoyt (artist)
Walker & Company

Finalist:
Ten-Gallon Bart and the Wild West Show
Susan Stevens Crummel, Dorothy Donohue (artist)
Marshall Cavendish Children's Books


Best Western Drama

Winner:
None
No Winner


Finalist:
None
No Winner



Best Western Documentary

Winner:
Kit Carson
Michelle Ferrari
American Experience, WGBH

Finalist:
Buffalo Bill
Rob Rapley
American Experience, WGBH

Finalist:
A Ballad of the West
Bobby Bridger
Bridger Productions, White Coyote Music


Best Western Poem

Winner:
"The Only Good Indian"
Linda Hussa
The Black Rock Press

Finalist:
"Sometimes, in the Lucias"
Janice Gilbertson
BK Publications

Finalist:
"Steers in Summer, Lowing"
Larry D. Thomas
Rattle


Best Western Audiobook

Winner:
Vendetta Canyon
Stan Lynde
Books in Motion

Finalist:
Grasshoppers in Summer
Paul Schmelzer Writing as Paul Colt
Books in Motion

Finalist:
Letter of the Law
C.K. Crigger
Books in Motion


Best Western Song

Winner:
"Linwood"
Jon Chandler
Western Dog Publishing BMI

Finalist:
"Soy Cayuse Cimarron"
Mike Blakely
Swing Rider Records

Finalist:
"Apache Kid"
Royal Wade Kimes
Blue Whistler Music

Thanks to Todd Mason for this information.