Winner of Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. The author explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother during the Great Depression.

Winner of Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel. Bass Reeves is a man of color and a deputy United States marshal. When Bass's son shoots down his unarmed wife who had been cheating on him and then disappears, the U.S. Marshal has reservations about handing the warrant to Bass. But for Bass there is no reservation. His son has broken the law and is a fugitive.

Winner of Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel. Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in WWI. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves and Gil's fragile family threads begin to fray.

Winner of Spur Award for Best Original Mass Market Paperback. The harsh lands between the Pecos River and the Rio Grande are ruled by renegade Texas Ranger Captain Hector Savage. Into this realm rides Ranger Dave Chance with a prisoner shackled to his side. An honest ranger, Sergeant Chance determines to deliver the locals from Savage's bloody reign. But to succeed against such long odds, Chance must do the unthinkable -- unshackle and arm his prisoner.

Winner of Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Historical. In 1857, President Buchanan ordered US troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order in the territory. Bigler, former director of the Utah Board of State History, and Bagley, an independent historian of the West, use long-suppressed sources to show that, contrary to common perceptions, the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanan's "blunder," nor was it a David-and-Goliath tale in which an abused religious minority heroically defied the unjust government. The authors argue that Mormon leaders fully intended to establish an independent nation in the West.

Winner of Spur Storyteller Award. A coyote asks Tornado Slim to deliver a letter to the sheriff of Fire Gulch City, giving him his special hat as incentive, and as disasters along the trip begin to pile up, Slim discovers that the hat is indeed special.