High Plains Book Awards – Recognizing Regional Literary Works

2019 High Plains Book Awards

Congratulations 2019 finalists!

Finalists for the 2019 High Plains Book Awards are announced in 12 categories.

See the list of 2019 finalists

An African In Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor

Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West

All That Held Us

AwÃsis and the World-Famous Bannock

Bert Riggall's Greater Waterton

Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Blackbird Song

Bronte's Thunder

Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains: The Last Great Hunts and Saving the Buffalo

Buried

Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories

Come West and See: Stories

A Death in Eden

Double! Not Half

The Flicker of Old Dreams

Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion's Soul through Science and Story

Go Ask Fannie

An Honest, Genial and Kindly People

Heavy

My Buddy Dido!

One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From The World At Large

Petting Tigers: My Life as a Witness of Jehovah

Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art From the Paul Dyck Collection

Prison Paws: Max's Story

Psychedelic Revolutionaries: LSD and the Birth of Hallucinogenic Research

The River by Starlight

Sadia

Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Thorn-Field

View From True North

Warblers and Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding

West to Montana

Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates

Wolfe in Shepherd's Clothing

Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism and the Fight to Feed the World

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