W. Turrentine Jackson Award Winners

The Western History Association awards the annual W. Turrentine-Jackson Award to a beginning professional historian for a first book on any aspect of ...more

Winners

	Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by John William Nelson (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2024)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana by Mark T. Johnson 4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands by Paul Barba 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 129 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement by Jennifer L. Holland 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth 4.29 avg rating — 635 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power by Megan A. Black 4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 by S. Deborah Kang 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (American Crossroads) (Volume 41) by Tyina Steptoe 4.16 avg rating — 63 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest by Bethel Saler 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) by Paul W. Mapp 4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934 by John W. Troutman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Brian DeLay 4.13 avg rating — 254 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 by Steven W. Hackel 3.61 avg rating — 61 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Jon T. Coleman 3.80 avg rating — 126 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks 3.79 avg rating — 217 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson 3.76 avg rating — 233 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike by Charlene Porsild 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity by David G. Gutiérrez 3.73 avg rating — 95 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 by Dana Frank really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation and the Frontier by Peter A. Coates 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820-1920 (American Social Experience Series) by Anne Farrar Hyde 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hoover Dam: An American Adventure by Stevens 4.25 avg rating — 135 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (1989)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the West Was Won: Homesteaders and Town-Builders in Western South Dakota, 1900-1917 by Paula M. Nelson 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings W. Turrentine Jackson Award (1987)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars