WINNER: Sky Bridge: Laura Pritchett, author; Milkweed Editions
FINALIST: Crazy Quilt: Paula Paul, author; University of New Mexico Press
FINALIST: Return to Abo: Sharon Niederman, author; University of New Mexico Press
WINNER: New Mercies: Sandra Dallas, author; St. Martin’s Press
FINALIST: Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross: Florence Byham Weinberg, author; Twilight Times Books
FINALIST: Sarah’s Quilt: Nancy E. Turner, author; St. Martin’s Press
WINNER: Summer of Fire: Linda Jacobs, author; Medallion Press
FINALIST: Loving Mercy: Teresa Bodwell, author; Kensington Publishing
FINALIST: Loving Miranda: Teresa Bodwell, author; Kensington Publishing
WINNER: A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon - 1845: Linda Crew, author; Oregon Historical Society Press
FINALIST: Anna’s Blizzard: Alison Hart, author; Peachtree Publishers
FINALIST: Under A Stand Still Moon: Ann Howard Creel, author; Brown Barn Books
WINNER: The Lady Rode Bucking Horses: Dee Marvine, author; Globe Pequot Press—Two Dot Imprint
FINALIST: Child of Many Rivers: Lucy Fischer-West, author; Texas Tech University Press
FINALIST: If You Lived Here I’d Know Your Name: Heather Lende, author; Algonquin Books
WINNER: Impertinences, Selected Writings of Elia Peattie: Susanne Bloomfield, editor; University of Nebraska Press
FINALIST: Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman’s Work: Mari Graña:, author; Globe-Pequot Press
FINALIST: More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women: Jan Cleere, author; Globe-Pequot Press
WINNER: Beasts In Snow: Jane Elkington Wohl, author; High Plains Press
FINALIST: Refuge of Whirling Light: Mary Beath, author; University of New Mexico Press
FINALIST: Hill Country & Other Poems: Renee Walker, author; Fixin' To Press
WINNER: Into
The Canyon: Seven Years In Navajo Country
by Lucy Moore
FINALIST: Above
The Clearwater: Living On Stolen Land
by Bette Lynch Husted
FINALIST: Grace
Stone Coates: Her Life In Letters by
Lee Rostad
WINNER: Isabella
Greenway: An Enterprising Woman
by Kristie Miller
FINALIST: The
Quilt That Walked To Golden: Women and Quilts in the Mountain West-From
the Overland Trail to Contemporary Colorado
by Sandra Dallas
FINALIST: The
Montana Frontier: One Woman’s West
by Joyce Litz
WINNER: The
Real Minerva: A Novel
by Mary Sharratt
FINALIST: Last
Lullaby
by Denise Hamilton
FINALIST: Useful
Girl by
Marcus Stevens
WINNER: Tombstone
Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers
by Jane Candia Coleman
FINALIST: Where
Heaven Begins
by Rosanne Bittner
FINALIST: Four
Souls by
Louise Erdrich
WINNER: Nothing
Here But Stones by
Nancy Oswald
FINALIST:
E is for Enchantment:
A New Mexico Alphabet
by Helen Foster James
FINALIST: Justina
Ford: Medical Pioneer
by Joyce B. Lohse
WINNER: Echoes
by Erin Grady
FINALIST: Moon
In The Water
by Elizabeth Grayson
FINALIST: Higher
Ground by Gladys Smith
WINNER: I
am Madagascar
by Ellen Waterston
FINALIST: The
Northwest Rainforest Pioneers
by Claudia Harper
FINALIST: Cowboy
Poetry: Turning to Face the Wind
by Jane Ambrose Morton
WINNER:
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki (Penguin Group USA)
FINALIST: Desert Wives by Betty Webb (Poisoned Pen Press)
FINALIST: Unpaid Dues by Barbara Seranella (Scribner)
WINNER: Silver Lies by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
FINALIST: Fireweed: A Woman's Saga in Gold Rush America by Carolyn
Evans Campbell (Georgetown Editions)
FINALIST: Matchless by Jane Candia Coleman (Five Star/Gale Publishing)
WINNER: Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk by Dorothy
Allred Solomon (W.W. Norton)
FINALIST: Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan by Ellen
Baumler, Editor (Montana Historical Society Press)
FINALIST: Then There Was No Mountain by Ellen Waterston (Roberts
Rinehart Books)
WINNER: Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian
America by Linda Lawrence Hunt (University of Idaho Press)
FINALIST: A Widow's Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball
Whitney by Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton, editors (Utah State
University Press)
FINALIST: One Woman's Political Journey by Lynn Musslewhite and
Suzanne Jones Crawford (University of Oklahoma Press)
WINNER: Deliverance Valley by Gladys Smith (Stoneydale
Press)
FINALIST: The Scout by Lynna Banning (Harlequin Historicals)
WINNER: Original Fire by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins)
FINALIST: Time Not Measured By A Clock by Carole Jarvis (Cowboy
Miner Productions)
WINNER: Rodzina by Karen Cushman (Clarion Books)
FINALIST: Meadow Lark by Mary Peace Finley (Filter Press)
FINALIST: Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers by Ginger Wadsworth
(Clarion Books)
WINNER: Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling (Blue Hen/Penguin)
FINALIST: Bad Faith, Aimée and David Thurlo (St. Martin's Minotaur)
FINALIST: No Man Standing, Barbara Seranella
(Scribner)
WINNER: Enemy Women, Paulette Jiles (William Morrow)
FINALIST: Strength of Stone, Dianne Elliott (Two Dot/Globe Pequot)
FINALIST: The Chili Queen, Sandra Dallas (St. Martin's Press)
WINNER: Breaking Clean, Judy Blunt (Alfred A. Knopf)
FINALIST: Between Grass and Sky, Linda M. Hasselstrom (University
of Nevada Press)
FINALIST: When Montana and I Were Young, Margaret Bell; Mary
Clear Blew, Editor (University of Nebraska Press)
WINNER: Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest, Arnold
Berke (Princeton Architectural Press)
FINALIST: Mary Hallock Foote, Darlis A. Miller
(University of Oklahoma Press)
FINALIST: Woman Walking Ahead, Eileen Pollack (University of
New Mexico Press)
WINNER: Small Rocks Rising, Susan Lang (University
of Nevada Press)
FINALIST: The Caballeros of Ruby, Texas, Cynthia Leal Massey
(Panther Creek Press)
FINALIST: Flight from Fear, Sarah Byrn Rickman (Disc-Us Books)
WINNER: Miracles of Sainted Earth, Victoria Edwards
Tester (University of New Mexico Press)
FINALIST: The Widow's Burden, Robert Cooperman (Western Reflections)
WINNER: Circle of Time, Marisa Montes (Harcourt)
FINALIST: Together Apart, Dianne E. Gray (Houghton Mifflin)
FINALIST: Whistler in the Dark, Kathleen Ernst (Pleasant Company
Publishers)
WINNER: This House of Women, Paul Scott
Malone (Texas Tech Univ. Press)
FINALIST: Heart of the Beast, Joyce Weatherford (Scribner)
FINALIST: The Jasmine Trade, Denise Hamilton (Scribner)
WINNER: The Good Journey, Micaela Gilchrist
(Simon & Schuster)
FINALIST: The Water and the Blood, Nancy Turner (HarperCollins)
FINALIST: The Magic of Ordinary Days, Ann Howard Creel (Penguin
Putnam)
WINNER: Eye of the Blackbird, Holly Skinner
(Johnson Books)
FINALIST: Sarah Winnemucca, Sally Zanjani (Univ. of Nebraska Press)
FINALIST: I'll Go and Do More, Carolyn Niethammer (Univ. of Nebraska
Press)
WINNER: She Flies Without Wings, Mary D.
Midkiff (Bantam Dell)
FINALIST: Mountain Time, Jane Candia Coleman (Five Star)
FINALIST: Standing Up to the Rock, T. Louise Freeman-Toole (Univ.
of Nebraska Press)
WINNER: Blood Sister I Am To These Fields, Linda Hussa (Black Rock Press)
WINNER: Cissy Funk, Kim Taylor (HarperCollins)
FINALIST: Walk Across the Sea, Susan Fletcher (Simon & Schuster)
FINALIST: Boston Jane, Jennifer Holm (HarperCollins)
WINNER: Across the Sweet Grass Hills, Gail
Jenner (Creative Arts Book Co.)
FINALIST: Fragile Treaties, Faye Roberts (Western Reflections)
FINALIST: Death of a Songbird, Christine Goff (Berkley)
WINNER: The Spirit Woman, Margaret Coel (Berkley)
FINALIST: Smoke Eaters, Christine Andreae (Thomas Dunne Books)
FINALIST: Catching Heaven, Sands Hall (Ballantine)
WINNER: For California's Gold, JoAnn Levy (University
Press of Colorado)
FINALIST: Alice's Tulips, Sandra Dallas (St. Martin's Press)
FINALIST: Soul of the Sacred Earth, Vella Munn (Tor/Forge)
WINNER: Dead Man Falls, Paula Boyd (Diomo Books)
FINALIST: Painted by the Sun, Eliz abethth Grayson aka Karen
Witmer-Gow (Bantam/Random House)
FINALIST: A Rant of Ravens, Christine Goff (Berkley)
WINNER: One Degree West: Reflections
of a Plainsdaughter, Julene Bair (Mid List Press)
FINALIST: Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie, Iris Keltz (Cinco Punto
Press}
FINALIST: Naming the Winds: A High Plains Apprenticeship, Caroline
Marwitz (High Plains Press)
WINNER: Horned Toad Prince, Jackie Mims Hopkins (Peachtree
Publishers)
FINALIST: Ghost Towns: Seven Ghostly Stories, Joan Lowery Nixon
(Random House)