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2024 WRMA WINNERS
WRMA 2024 Golden Lariat Award: Bob Boze Bell
WRMA 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award: Jane Kirkpatrick
Please see below the 2024 WRMA Winners, listed in order of the authors' last names and followed by the publisher's names in parentheses. The final rankings of the winners will be announced at WRMA's Ceremony and Banquet October 19th, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas.
WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES/MEMOIRS
Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill
By Steve Friesen (Bison Books)
Red Cloud and the Indian Trader: The Remarkable Friendship
of the Sioux Chief and J.W. Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier
By Marilyn Dear Nelson and Chris Nelson (Globe Pequot)
Son of the Old West: The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo
By Nathan Ward (Grove Atlantic)
WESTERN NON-FICTION
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
By Rebecca Clarren (Viking)
An Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood’s Most Notorious Bordellos
By Chris Enss & Deadwood History, Inc. (TwoDot)
Fortune’s Frenzy: A California Gold Rush Odyssey
By Eilene Lyon (Globe Pequot)
Montana: A Paper Trail
By Thomas Minckler (Montana Historical Society Press)
WESTERN TRADITIONAL FICTION
Lunger: The Doc Holliday Story
By Paul Colt (Hat Creek)
Desperate Warrior
By W. Michael Farmer (Hat Creek)
Changing Woman: A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre
By Venetia Hobson Lewis (Bison Books)
Silver Prairies
By Pegg Thomas (Spinner of Yarns)
WESTERN SHORT NON-FICTION
“The Klondike”
By Mike Coppock (Wild West Magazine)
“The Gun that Won the 1580s West”
By Louis A. Garavaglia (Wild West Magazine)
“Kit Carson and the Conquest of California”
By Paul Andrew Hutton (True West Magazine)
WESTERN MODERN FICTION
Somebody’s Business
By Irene Bennett Brown (Five Star)
After the Eagle Has Fallen
By W. Michael Gear (Wolfpack)
The Ways of Water
By Teresa H. Janssen (She Writes Press)
WESTERN COOKBOOKS
The 7 Up Ranch Cookbook
By Kathy McCraine (Burro Creek Publishing)
Signature Dishes of America:
Recipes and Culinary Treasures from Historic Hotels and Restaurants
By Sherry Monahan (Globe Pequot)
WESTERN ROMANCE
The Speaker of Clovis Creek
By C.K. Crigger (Wolfpack)
Tastefully Texas
By K.S. Jones (Wolfpack)
Cobalt Skies
By Pegg Thomas (Spinner of Yarns)
WESTERN YOUNG READER/NON-FICTION/ILLUSTRATED
Goodnight Cowboy: A Rusty’s Reading Remuda Tale
By Mary Fichtner, Illustrated by Roslan Fichtner (Rusty’s Reading Remuda)
Fort Worth, Texas: That’s My Town!
By Richard Selcer, Illustrated by Deran Wright (TCU Press)
Will Rogers and His Great Presidential Pals
By Bart Taylor, Illustrated by Greg White
(Yorkshire Publishing)
WESTERN YOUNG READER/FICTION/ILLUSTRATED
The Healing Lodge
By Barbara L. Clouse, Illustrated by Gabby Correia
(Young Dragons)
Corky Tails: Tales of a Tailless Dog Named Sagebrush:
Holly Berry & Mistletoe
Written and Illustrated by Joni Franks (Xlibris)
Wild Bill and the Pirates!
By Thadd Turner, Illustrated by Jeanne Conway
(Old West Alive!)
WESTERN HUMOR
Granny Storms the Beach
By Carole T. Beers (Turquoise Sky)
Call of the Wilde
By Preston Lewis (Wolfpack)
Never Dull!
By Heather Sharp (Heather Sharp Publishing)
WESTERN MYSTERY
The Way of the Bear
By Anne Hillerman (Harper Collins)
The Longmire Defense
By Craig Johnson (Viking)
Hard Country
By Reavis Z. Wortham (Poisoned Pen Press)
WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS
Edward S. Curtis: Unpublished Plains
By Edward Curtis, Coleen Graybill & John Edward Graybill (Curtis Legacy Foundation)
Bighorn Visions: The Photography of Jessamine Spear Johnson
By Tempe Javitz (South Dakota Historical Society Press)
The Ditches of Nevada City
By Dom Lindars (NevadaCityHistory.com)
WESTERN INSPIRATIONAL
In the Company of Cows
By Sequoyah Branham (Sequoyah Branham Publishing)
Fair Haven
By Laura Conner Kestner (Sycamore House Publishing)
Unconquered Horses
By Lyn Miller (Owyhee Gray Publishing)
Another Man’s Dream
By Andrew Roth (Elk Lake Publishing)
WRMA 2024 ILLUSTRATOR OF THE YEAR
Joni Franks
WESTERN FICTION SHORT STORIES
“Finding Fortune”
By W. Michael Farmer (Saddlebag Dispatches)
“Bad Choices” from Riding with the Pack
By W. Michael Gear (Wolfpack)
“A Death of Crows”
By Michael Norman (Saddlebag Dispatches)
WESTERN MAVERICK
The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery
By Thomas Goodman (Mainsail Media)
WESTERN YOUNG READER/FICTION
Heartwood Mountain
By S.J. Dahlstrom (Paul Dry Books)
A Sky Full of Song
By Susan Lynn Meyer (Union Square Kids)
Rowdy: Rescue
By Chris Mullen (Wolfpack)
Rowdy: Return
By Chris Mullen (Wolfpack)
The Cattle and the Canyon
By Heather Rose (Banquet-Cross Publications)
COWBOY WRITTEN POETRY
Into the West
By Poppa Mac (Poppa Mac, Inc)
REAL: A Rodear of Poetry
By Betty Lynne McCarthy, Dan Hartman, Jim Crotts, Robert Dennis, Natalie G'Schwind, Karen Stockett,
Hoss Balsam, Chantz Hubing
(Sunlit Silver Bit Publishing)
COWBOY RECORDED POETRY
Provin’ Up Wise
By Rik “Yonder” Goodell (Yonderin’ Tales)
WESTERN WRITTEN POETRY
Deciphering the Desert: a book of poems
By Susan Cummins Miller (Finishing Line Press)
Bootjack
By John S. Nelson (Pasque Press)
WESTERN RECORDED POETRY
The Corps of Discovery
By L.J. Martin (Buttonwillow Books)
WESTERN YOUNG READERS/NON-FICTION
Bass Reeves: Legendary Lawman of the Wild West
By Billie Holladay Skelley (Crossing Time Press)
WESTERN FILM - DOCUMENTARY
Today’s Wild West, Episode 606, Sprucedale Horse Drive
By Mark Bedor (director, writer) Today’s Wild West LLC
The Real Wild West: “Boom and Bust”: Episode 3
By Sarah Burns (director/executive producer/writer), Alex Sherratt (writer/executive producer), Steve Burns (executive producer), Jorge Franzini (executive producer)
Roller Coaster Road Productions
The Sad Life & Tragic End of Superstar ALAN LADD
By Rob Word (director/writer/producer) and RJ Word (associate producer) WORD TV
WESTERN FILM - DRAMA
Goin’ Home
By Steve Shaw (director/writer/producer); Great American Adventures, LLC
Teller’s Camp
By Jared Zabel (writer/director/producer); Bryce Zabel (executive producer)
Wayward Son Production