The Caughey Western History Association Prize is given annually by the Western History Association to the best book published the previous year on the American West. The winner receives $2,500 and a certificate.
Winners 2024 – Elliott West Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion 2023 – Michael John Witgen Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America 2022 – Traci Brynne Voyles The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism 2021 – Alice Baumgartner – South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War 2020 – Maurice Crandall – These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912 2019 – Monica Muñoz Martinez – The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas 2018 – Louis Warren – God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America 2017 – James F. Brooks – Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre 2016 – Edward Dallam Melillo – Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile–California Connection 2016 – Joshua Reid, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs 2015 – Andrew Needham – Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest 2014 – Keith R. Widder – Beyond Pontiac's Shadow: Michilmackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763 2013 – Frederick E. Hoxie – This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made 2012 – Anne F. Hyde – Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860 2011 – Erika Lee and Judy Yung – Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America 2010 – Elliott West – The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story 2009 – Pekka Hämäläinen – The Comanche Empire 2008 – B. Byron Price – Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné 2007 – Albert L. Hurtado – John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier 2006 – Louis S. Warren – Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show 2005 – Jeffrey Ostler – The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee 2004 – Colin G. Calloway – One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark 2003 – Will Bagley – Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows 2002 – Donald Worster – A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell 2001 – Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher – The American West: A New Interpretive History 2000 – Walter Nugent – Into the West: The Story of Its People 1999 – Elliott West – The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado 1998 – Malcolm J Rorhbough – Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation 1997 – Richard W. Etulain – Re–Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History and Art 1996 – David Wallace Adams – Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 1995 – Clyde A. Milner III, Carol A. O’Connor, Martha A. Sandweiss, eds. – The Oxford History of the American West 1994 – Robert M. Utley – The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull 1993 – David J. Weber – The Spanish Frontier in North America
Prior to 1993, it was known as the Western History Association Prize for a “distinguished body of writing”
1992 – Howard Lamar 1991 – W. Turrentine Jackson 1990 – Wallace Stegner 1989 – William T. Hagan 1988 – Robert M. Utley 1987 – Francis Paul Prucha 1986 – Paul W. Gates 1985 – No Award Given 1984 – No Award Given 1983 – Robert G. Athearn
References
Western History Association – Caughey Western History Prize