The Caughey Western History Association Prize is given annually by the Western History Association to the best book published the previous year on the American West. The winner receives $2,500 and a certificate.
Winners
2021 - Alice Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War 2020 - Maurice Crandall, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 2019 - Monica Muñoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas 2018 - Louis Warren, God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America 2017 - James F. Brooks, Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre 2016 - Edward Dallam Melillo, Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection 2016 - Joshua Reid, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs 2015 - Andrew Needham - Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest 2014 - Keith R. Widder - Beyond Pontiac's Shadow: Michilmackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763 2013 - Frederick E. Hoxie - This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made 2012 - Anne F. Hyde - Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 2011 - Erika Lee and Judy Yung - Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America 2010 - Elliott West - The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story 2009 - Pekka Hämäläinen - The Comanche Empire 2008 - B. Byron Price - Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné 2007 - Albert L. Hurtado - John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier 2006 - Louis S. Warren - Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show 2005 - Jeffrey Ostler - The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee 2004 - Colin G. Calloway - One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark 2003 - Will Bagley - Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows 2002 - Donald Worster - A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell 2001 - Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher - The American West: A New Interpretive History 2000 - Walter Nugent - Into the West: The Story of Its People 1999 - Elliott West - The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado 1998 - Malcolm J Rorhbough - Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation 1997 - Richard W. Etulain - Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History and Art 1996 - David Wallace Adams - Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 1995 - Clyde A. Milner III, Carol A. O’Connor, Martha A. Sandweiss, eds. - The Oxford History of the American West 1994 - Robert M. Utley - The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull 1993 - David J. Weber The Spanish Frontier in North America
Prior to 1993, it was known as the Western History Association Prize for a “distinguished body of writing”