Will Rogers Medallion Award Winners

 

 

 

2009 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winners

The Will Rogers Medallion Award Committee is proud to announce the winners of the

2009 Will Rogers Medallion Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Publishing

of Western Literature.  The books, film and publishers to be honored this year are:

 

 

 

 

Cowboy Poetry "A Prairie Prayer"                            Author - Bruce Roseland, Seneca, SD                                                         Publisher - North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies,                                                                         Fargo, ND   "Cowboy Poetry: Tracks That Won't Blow Out"                                                         Author - Ray Owens, Artesia, NM                                                         Publisher - Cowboy Miner Publications, Phoenix, AZ   "Lost Trails"                                    Author - Willard Hollopeter, Woodlake, NE                                                         Publisher - Pine Hill Press, Sioux Falls, SD   Western Nonfiction "Unbridled Cowboy"                    Author - Joseph B. Fussell/E.R. Fussell, LeRoy. NY                                                     Publisher - Truman State University Press, Kirksville, MO   Western Fiction - Young Adult "Beyond The Smoke"                Author - Terry Burns, Amarillo, TX                                                 Publisher - BJU Press/Journeyforth Books, Greenville, SC   Western Fiction "Sittin' Round The Stove - Stories From The Real West"                                             Author - Ken Overcast, Chinook, MT                                             Publisher - Bear Valley Press, Chinook, MT   Western Media - Film "On The Trail of Jack Thorp"        Director - Susan Gervasi, Greenbelt, MD                                                     Production - LazyG Films, Greenbelt, MD

 

 

 

2007 Winners

 

“Rhymes & Damn Lies”
Author – Mike Puhallo                 Kamloops, BC, Canada           
Publisher- Hancock House,         Blaine, WA                     

 

“Rodeo Country” 
Author – Bette Wolf Duncan,        Runnells,  Iowa
Publisher – Morris,                      Kearney, Nebraska

                                                                                               

“Cowboy Poetry: The Campfire Ain’t Quite Out”
Author - Kent Stockton                Riverton, Wyoming
Publisher –Cowboy Miner Productions,  Phoenix, AZ

                                                                                               
“Arizona Women –Weird, Wild and Wonderful” 
Author - Dee Strickland Johnson          Phoenix, AZ
Publisher - Cowboy Miner Productions  Phoenix, AZ                                                                                              

“Western Poetry: West River Waltz” 
Author – D.W. Groethe                      Bainville, Montana
Publisher -  Cowboy Miner Productions      Phoenix, AZ                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                                2006 Winners          

                                                                          

“Buck Ramsey’s Grass”
Editors -Scott Braucher and Bette Ramsey
Publisher - Texas Tech University Press

“From My Window and other poems”
Author - Yvonne Hollenbeck
Publisher  - Pine Hill Press

 

2005 Winners

 

“Cowboy Poetry: Cloud Watchers”
Author – Rolf Flake
Publisher – Cowboy Miner Productions

“Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion”
Editor – Virginia Bennett
Publisher - Gibbs-Smith Publishing

“Short Poems & Tall Cowboys”
Author – Jessie Colt  Artist – Val Moker
Publisher  - Friesen’s Business Machines

“Where Sagebrush Grows”
Author - Darin Bookman
Publisher - Pair’a Spurs Press

                                                                2004 Winners

 

“Pat Richardson Unhobbled”
Author - Pat Richardson
Publisher – Pine Hill Press

“Ground Tied”
Author - Lyn Messersmith
Publisher – EZ Rein Publishing

“Arizona Herstory, Tales From Her Storied Past”
Author – Dee Strickland Johnson
Publisher - Cowboy Miner Productions

“Time Not Measured By A Clock”
Author – Carole Jarvis
Publisher – Cowboy Miner Productions

“Cowboy Poetry: Turning To Face The Wind”
Author – Jane Ambrose Morton
Publisher - Cowboy Miner Productions

“Born To This Land”
Author – Red Steagall   Artist – Skeeter Hagler
Publisher – Texas Tech University Press

                                                               2003 Winners

 

“A Little Bit of Texas”
Author – Rod Nichols

“Cowboy Poetry: Horse Tracks Through the Sage”
Authors - Sunny Hancock and Jessie Smith

“Where Prairie Flowers Bloom”
Author - Yvonne Hollenbeck

“Somewhere Between Earth and Heaven”
Author – Mike Dunn
 
                                                               2002 Winners

 

“The Fence That Me and Shorty Built”
Author – Red Steagall

“Cowboy Poetry: Rhymes, Reasons, and Pack Saddle Proverbs”
Author – Chris Isaacs

“The Big Roundup”    
Edited by Margo Metegrano

“Piled Higher and Deeper”
Author – Mike Puhallo  Artist – Wendy Liddle

“Rainman”
Author – Lloyd Shelby