2023 | Michele Corriel, Montana Modernists: Shifting Perceptions of Western Art (Washington State University Press, 2022)

2022 | Karlos K. Hill, The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021)

2021 | Nicole Dawn Strathman, Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020)

2020 | Heather Ahtone, Faith Brower, and Seth Hopkins for Warhol and the West (University of California Press, 2019)

2019 | James R. Swensen, In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954 (University of Utah Press, 2018)

2018 | Steve Friesen for Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017)

2017 | Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme for Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016).

2015 | Sergei Kan for A Russian American photographer in Tlingit country : Vincent Soboleff in Alaska (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013)

2013 | Eric L. Muller for Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)

2011 | Carol Clark for Charles Deas and 1840s America (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009)

2009 | B. Byron Price for Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007)

2007 | Margot Liberty, ed. Commentary by John Woodenlegs for A Northern Cheyenne Album: Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis (University of Oklahoma Press, 2006)

2005 | Edited by Brandon K. Ruud, annotations by Marsha V. Gallagher, essays by Ron Tyler and Brandon K. Ruud, preface by J. Brooks Joyner for Karl Bodmer‘s North American Prints (Joslyn Art Museum and University of Nebraska Press, 2004)

2003 | Aron L. Crowell (Editor), Amy F. Steffian (Editor), Gordon L. Pullar (Editor) Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (University of Alaska Press, 2001)

2001 | Carlos Schwantes for Long Day‘s Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West (University of Washington Press, 1999)

1999 | Mary Meagher and Douglas B. Houston for Yellowstone and the Biology of Time (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998)

1997 | Peter Hassrick and Melissa J. Webster for Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (University of Washington Press, 1996)

1995 | Edited by David Harris with Eric Sandweiss for Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880 (MIT Press, 1993)

1993 | David W. Penny for Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection (University of Washington Press, 1992).