The wins mark Cobb’s second and Utley’s third.
2013 Spur Awards Winners and Finalists:
Best Western Short Novel:
Winner: Tucker’s Reckoning by Matthew Mayo
Finalist: Lonesome Animals by Bruce Holbert
Finalist: City of Rocks by Michael Zimmer
Best Western Long Novel:
Winner: With Blood in Their Eyes by Thomas Cobb
Finalist: The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Finalist: Country of the Bad Wolfes by James Carlos Blake
Best Original Mass Market Paperback:
Winner: The Coyote Tracker by Larry Sweazy
Finalist: Redemption: Hunters by James Reasoner
Finalist: The Secret of Lodestar by Tim Champlin
Best First Novel:
Winner: Panhandle by Brett Cogburn
Finalist: Wide Open by Larry Bjornson
Finalist: The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Best Western Nonfiction Biography:
Winner: Geronimo by Robert M. Utley
Finalist: Ho! For the Black Hills: Captain Jack Crawford Reports the Black Hills Gold Rush and Great Sioux War by Paul L. Hedren
Finalist: “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend by Catherine Holder Spude
Best Western Nonfiction Historical:
Winner: With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852 by Will Bagley
Finalist: Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1954-1868 by Doreen Chaky
Finalist: Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry by Joan Nabseth Stevenson
Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary:
Winner: Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, A Mojave Hermit and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History by Deanne Stillman
Finalist: Colorado Powder Keg: Ski Resorts and the Environmental Movement by Michael W. Childers
Finalist: Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West by Ruben Martinez
Best Western Short Fiction Story:
Winner: “The Hog Whisperer” by John Mort
Finalist “The Saint of Pox Island” by Susan K. Salzer
Finalist: “The Day Delgado Rode In” by Lori Van Pelt
Best Western Short Nonfiction:
Winner: “Marathoner Louis Tewanima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908-1912″ by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
Finalist: “Libbie Custer: ‘A Wounded Thing Must Hide’” by Paul Andrew Hutton
Finalist “‘Wearing the Hempen Neck-Tie’: Lynching in Nebraska 1858-1919″ by James E. Potter
Best Western Juvenile Fiction:
Winner: Wide Open by Larry Bjornson
Finalist: Blooming Prairie by Candace Simar
Finalist: And There I’ll Be A Soldier by Johnny D. Boggs
Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction:
Winner: Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days by Nancy Plain
Finalist: The Great Bicycle Experiment: The Army’s Historic Black Bicycle Corps, 1896-97 by Kay Moore
Finalist: Strike!: Mother Jones & the Colorado Coal Field War by Lois Ruby
Storyteller Award:
Winner: Pecos Bill Invents the Ten-Gallon Hat by Kevin Strauss, illustrated by David Harrington
Finalist: The Adventures of Buffalo Joe and The Blackbird With the Broken Wing by Jamie Anne Blake
Finalist: Big Buckaroo and Moose, The Cow Dog by Rachelle “Rocky” Gibbons, illustrated by Jason Hutton
Best Western Drama Script (Fiction):
Winner: Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino
Finalist: Hatfields & McCoys by Bill Kerby, Ted Mann, Ronald Parker
Finalist: Justified by Graham Yost, Elmore Leonard, Dave Andron, Fred Golan, Benjamin Cavell, Taylor Elmore, Jon Worley, Nichelle D. Tramble, Ryan Farley, Ingrid Escajeda, V.J. Boyd
Best Western Documentary Script (Nonfiction):
Winner: The Dust Bowl by Dayton Duncan
Best Western Poem:
Winner: “Johnny Ringo” by Red Shuttleworth
Finalist: “Night Singer, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico” by Steve Fieffenbacher
Finalist: “Nat Maringo” by Robert Brown
Best Western Audiobook:
Winner: Ring of Fire by Cotton Smith
Finalist: Trouble in Texas by Tom Nichols
Best Western Song:
Winner: “Texas Is Burnin’” by Jim Jones
Winner: “Any Name Will Do” by Mary Kaye
Finalist: “The Last Real Cowboy in Old Santa Fe” by Jerry Faires
Source: Western Writers of America
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