Over the past month the Western History Association and Denver Public Library’s Western/Genealogy Department announced the winners of numerous book prizes in western history. Winners included several boarder lands histories, two works on Japanese internment, Native American history, and the 18^th century West. We here at BlogWest wish to congratulate each of the winners, and look forward to sitting down with your books soon.

W. TURRENTINE-JACKSON AWARD  – Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763

JOAN PATTERSON KERR AWARD – Eric L. Muller, Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

ROBERT M. UTLEY AWARD – Amy S. Greenberg, A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico

HAL K. ROTHMAN AWARD – Lissa K. Wadewitz, The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea

DAVID J. WEBER-CLEMENTS PRIZE – Lance R. Blyth, Chiricahua and Janos: Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880

CAUGHEY WESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION PRIZE – Frederick E. Hoxie, This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made

CAROLINE BANCROFT HISTORY PRIZE – Greg Robinson, After Camp: Portraits in Mid Century Japanese American Life and Politics