Hal K. Rothman Prize Winners

The Hal K. Rothman Book Prize is given biennially by the Western History Association for the best book in western environmental history defined in its ...more

Winners

	Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice by Finis Dunaway 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings Hal K. Rothman Prize (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
	An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest by Adam M. Sowards (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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
	Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth 4.31 avg rating — 396 ratings Hal K. Rothman Prize (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 Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble by James E. Sherow 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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
	Heading Out: A History of American Camping by Terence Young 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings Hal K. Rothman Prize (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
	The City Is More Than Human: An Animal History of Seattle by Frederick L. Brown 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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
	Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Politics and Society in Modern America, 107) by Andrew Needham 3.82 avg rating — 118 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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
	The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography) by Lissa K. Wadewitz 3.61 avg rating — 51 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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
	Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Frehner 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings Hal K. Rothman Prize (2012)	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
	Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Marsha L. Weisiger 4.01 avg rating — 92 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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
	The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Richard A. Walker 3.56 avg rating — 43 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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
	The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism by Robert W. Righter 3.81 avg rating — 79 ratings Hal K. Rothman 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

More Awards

Bram Stoker Award
Hugo Award
Royal Society Science Book Prize
Booker Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Newbery Medal
Nebula Award
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
National Book Award
J. Gordon Coogler Award
More…