The Spur Awards

12-year old Alice Winston lives on her family’s rundown horse ranch in Colorado’s high desert. She must cope with her bedridden mother, absent older sister and the death of a classmate. Lyrical coming of age novel.

Another edition to the very successful Leaphorn/Chee mystery series. In this outing the story centers on a mysterious Navajo rug.

This tale follows a young man as he apprentices with a team of packers.

In 1954, the United States government, under the Indian Termination Act, “incorporated” a large portion of Indian land on the Pacific Coast, therefore, revoking the status of a number of tribes. In 1961 the tribes were compensated to the tune of $43, 000 per tribe member. This novel focuses on how 3 Native brothers deal with the loss of their lands and the receiving of the money.

This novel is an engaging study of two of history’s most interesting characters, Merriweather Lewis and William Clark. The novel is told from different characters points of view.

Mail order brides, bordello madams and bank robbers all pepper this charming novel about 1860’s New Mexico.

This Texas Rangers novel takes place after the Civil War during the Reconstruction. Rusty Shannon, a former Texas Ranger, ekes out a living as a rancher and adopts a half-Native boy.

A man looks back at his life and remembers one exciting summer in Port Caddo, Texas.

This novel tells the story of William “Bat” Masterson, a legendary lawman of the Old West.