Ray Allen Billington Prize Winners

The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book about American frontier h ...more

Winners

	Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas by Jeffrey Ostler 4.28 avg rating — 85 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams 4.31 avg rating — 113 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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 Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 235 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Trees in Paradise: A California History by Jared Farmer 4.14 avg rating — 230 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past by Peter Boag 3.78 avg rating — 91 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	The Father of All: The de la Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California by Louise Pubols 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle by Matthew Klingle 3.83 avg rating — 167 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 by Pablo Mitchell 3.37 avg rating — 38 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway 4.20 avg rating — 259 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Print the Legend: Photography and the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss 4.45 avg rating — 42 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 by Gunther Peck 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West 3.94 avg rating — 364 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation by Malcolm J. Rohrbough 3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos 3.66 avg rating — 1,499 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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 Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter 3.95 avg rating — 124 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California by James N. Gregory 3.77 avg rating — 148 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Indian Survival on the California Frontier (Yale Western Americana Series) by Albert L. Hurtado 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	Phil Sheridan and His Army by Paul Andrew Hutton 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (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
	The Great Father, 2-volume set: The United States Government and the American Indians by Francis Paul Prucha liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (1985)	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 Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by David J. Weber 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (1983)	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 Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 by John D. Unruh 4.26 avg rating — 74 ratings Ray Allen Billington Prize (1981)	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