Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Awards
This award honors outstanding books which are set in the region of  Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Texas, Montana, Kansas, Arizona, Nebraska and South Dakota.

2005

Adult Fiction
Winner:
Nominees:
An Unfinished Life, by Mark Spragg
Detachment Fault, by Susan Cummins Miller
Eventide, by Kent Haruf
Useful Girl, by Marcus Stevens
Work of Wolves, by Kent Meyers

Adult Nonfiction
Winner:
Nominees:
The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature, by David Baron
Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent - Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man, by David Fridtjof Halaas, Andrew E. Masich
Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front, by Hannah Hinchman
The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West, by Joyce Litz
Solace : Rituals of Loss and Desire, by Mary Sojourner

The Arts
Winner:
Nominees:
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest, by Joe Ben Wheat, Ann Lane Hedland
Flagstaff Past and Present, by Richard Mangum, Sherry Mangum, Bruce Babbitt
Montana: Hometown Rodeo, by Joanne Berghold, Kim Zupan
Pueblo Imagination: landscape and memory in the photography of Lee Marmon, by Lee Marmon
So Quietly the Earth, by David Lee
Windmill Tales: Stories from the American Wind Power Center, by Wyman Meinzer, Coy E. Harris, Steve Halladay

Children’s Chapter Book
Winner:
Nominees:
Climbing the Rainbow, by Joy N. Hulme
Last of the Roundup Boys, by Debra Seely
Nothing Here but Stones: A Jewish Pioneer Story, by Nancy Oswald
Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People, by Vickie Leigh Krudwig
Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers, by Ginger Wadsworth

Children’s Picture Books
Winner:
Nominees:
High as a Hawk, by T. A. Barron, Ted Lewin (Illustrator)
My Water Comes from the Mountains, by Tiffany Fourment
Old Coyote, by Nancy Wood, Max Grafe (Illustrator)
Tales from Gizzard’s Grill, by Jeanne Steig
The Toughest Cowboy: or How the West Was Tamed, by John Frank

Regional Reference
Winner:
Nominees:
Ancient Pinon-Juniper Woodlands: A Natural History of Mesa Verde Country, by M. Lisa Floyd., David Hanna, William H. Romme, Marilyn Colyer
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West: Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation, by Rick A. Adams, Wendy Smith
Men of the West: Life on the American Frontier, by Cathy Luchetti
Mines, Mountain Roads, and Rocks: Geologic Road Logs of the Ouray Area, by George E. Moore
Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone: A Mountaineering History and Guide, by Thomas Turiano
Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art of the Black Hills Country, by Linea Sundstrom
2004

Fiction: Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still, Kent Nelson
Non Fiction: Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone, Gary Ferguson
The Arts: Birds of Prey in the American West, Tom Vezo (photos), Richard L. Glinski (text)
Children's Picture Book: Enduring Wisdom: sayings from Native Americans, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Synthia Saint James (Illustrations)
Regional Reference: Creation of the Teton Landscape: the geologic story of Grand Teton National Park, J.D. Love, John Calvin Reed

2003

Fiction:  Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling
Nonfiction:  Breaking Clean, Judy Blunt
Art:  Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park, Peter Hassrick
Children's Chapter Book:  Women Artists of the West: Five Portraits in Creativity and Courage,  Julie Danneberg


2002

Fiction: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
Nonfiction: A River Running West: the life of John Wesley Powell, Donald Worster
Art: Ansel Adams at 100, John Szarkowski
Children’s Chaper Book: Daniel's Walk, Michael Spooner
Children’s Picture Book: Mountain Men: true grit and tall tales /, Andrew Glass


2001

Fiction: Winter Range, Claire Davis
Nonfiction: The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams: a memoir, Nasdijj
Art: Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection, Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Children’s: Clarence Goes Out West and Meets a Purple Horse, Jean Ekman Adams


2000

Fiction:
Plainsong, Kent Haruf

Nonfiction:
Where Rivers Change Direction, Mark Spragg
Fire on the Mountain: the true story of the South Canyon fire, John Maclean

Children’s:
The Wild Colorado: the true adventures of Fred Dellenbaugh, age 17, on the second Powell Expedition into the Grand Canyon, Richard Maurer


1999

Fiction: One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus
Nonfiction: Lasso in the Wind: Away to the New West, Timothy Egan
Poetry: In Gravity National Park, C.L. Rawlins
Children’s: Boss of the Plains: the hat that won the West, Laurie Carlson, and Illustrated by Holly Meade


1998

Fiction: The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness, Rick Bass
Nonfiction: Legends of the American Desert: sojourns in the greater Southwest, Alex Shoumatoff
Poetry: Blue Horses Rush In, Luci Tapahonso
Children’s: The Serpent’s Tongue: prose, poetry, and art of the New Mexico pueblos, Nancy Wood, ed.


1997

Fiction: Sun Dancer, David London
Nonfiction: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West, Stephen E. Ambrose
Poetry: Mountains & Rivers Without End, Gary Snyder
Children’s: Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy, Brian & Andrea D. Pinkney


1996

Fiction: Stone Song, Win Blevins
Nonfiction: The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: a Lakota odyssey, Joe Starita
Poetry: My Town, David Lee
Children’s: A Boy Called Slow: the true story of Sitting Bull, Joseph Bruchac


1995

Fiction: Stygo, Laura Hendrie
Nonfiction: Killing Custer: the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the fate of the Plains Indians, James Welch
Poetry: Loose Woman, Sandra Cisneros
Children’s: Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, Paul Erickson


1994

Fiction:
Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver
The Death of Bernadette Lefthand, Ron Querry
Montana 1948, Larry Watson

Poetry:
So Far From God, Ana Castillo

Children’s:
I Am Lavina Cumming, Susan Lowell


1993

Fiction:
Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston
The Meadow, James Galvin
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy

Nonfiction:
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: living and writing in the West, Wallace Stegner


1992

Nonfiction:
Land Circle: Writings Collected from the Land, Linda Hasselstrom
PrairyErth: A Deep Map, William Least Heat-Moon
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Terry Tempest Williams
Songs of the Fluteplayer: seasons of life in the Southwest, Sharman Apt Russell


1991

Fiction: Mean Spirit, Linda Hogan
Nonfiction: Photographing Montana, 1894-1928. The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron, Donna M. Lucey
Poetry: In Mad Love and War, Joy Harjo
Children’s: Canyons, Gary Paulsen


1990

Fiction: The Testimony of Mr. Bones, Olive Ghiselin
Nonfiction: Remote Beyond Compare: letters of don Diego de Vargas to his family from New Spain and New Mexico, 1675-1706, John Kessell
Poetry: What We Have to Live With, Marilyn Krysl
Children’s: Bearstone, Will Hobbs



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