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The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the best book about American frontier history. The “American frontier” includes all of North and South America. It includes all pioneer experiences from 1492 forward. It also includes comparisons between American frontiers and others outside the western hemisphere. First given in 1981, this prize honors Ray Allen Billington, OAH President, 1962-1963. A 3-member committee, chosen by the OAH President for a two-year term, selects the winner who receives $1000. The first award was made posthumously to John D. Unruh who died in 1976. [1] No award was made in 1997, and two awards were made in 1999. [2]
| Year | Winner | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | John D. Unruh[3] | Bluffton University | The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60[4] |
| 1983 | David Weber | Southern Methodist University | The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico |
| 1985 | Francis Paul Prucha, S.J. | Marquette University | The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians |
| 1987 | Paul Andrew Hutton | University of New Mexico | Phil Sheridan and His Army |
| 1989 | Albert L. Hurtado[5] | Arizona State University | Indian Survival on the California Frontier |
| 1991 | James N. Gregory[6] | University of Washington | American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California |
| 1993 | Daniel K. Richter | University of Pennsylvania | The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization |
| 1995 | John Putnam Demos | Yale University | The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America |
| 1997 | No award given. | ||
| 1999co | Malcolm J. Rohrbough[7] | University of Iowa | Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation |
| 1999co | Elliott West[8] | University of Arkansas | The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado |
| 2001 | Gunther Peck[9] | Duke University | Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in The North American West, 1880-1930 |
| 2003 | Martha A. Sandweiss[10] | Amherst College | Print the Legend: Photography and the American West |
| 2005 | Colin G. Calloway[11] | Dartmouth College | One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark |
| 2007 | Pablo R. Mitchell[12] | Oberlin College | Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 |
| 2009 | Matthew Klingle[13] | Bowdoin College | Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle |
References
- ^ http://www.bluffton.edu/library/coll/ms/unruh (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/billington/index.html (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://www.bluffton.edu/library/coll/ms/unruh (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83dzq7cb9780252063602.html (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/H/Albert.L.Hurtado-1 (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/gregory%20page/index.htm (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://www.uiowa.edu/~history/People/Inactive%20Colleagues/rohrbough.html (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://history.uark.edu/index.php/faculty_bio/20 (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://history.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2Fhistory&Uil=peckgw&subpage=profile (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/masandweiss (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nas/facstaff/calloway.html (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://new.Oberlin.edu/dotAsset/178846 (last retrieved 02/16/2011)
- ^ http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/m/mklingle/pdf/KlingleCVJuly_09.pdf (last retrieved 02/16/2011)