2022 | Stephen Kantrowitz, "Jurisdiction, Civilization, and the End of Native American Citizenship: The View from 1866," Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2021)

2021 | Brian Rouleau, "How the West Was Fun: Children's Literature and Frontier Mythmaking toward the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Western Historical Quarterly (Spring 2020)

2020 | Lissa K. Wadewitz, “Rethinking the 'Indian War': Northern Indians and Intra-Native Politics in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2019) 

2019 | Joshua Garrett-Davis, “The Intertribal Drum of Radio: The Indians for Indians Hour and Native American Media, 1941-1951,” Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2018) 

2018 | Joseph L. Locke for "The Heathen at Our Door: Missionaries, Moral Reformers, and the Making of the 'Mexican Problem,'" Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2018)

2017 | Fredy González for "Chinese Braceros? Chinese Mexican Workers in the United States during World War II," Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2017). 

2016 | David Wrobel for "Considering Frontiers and Empires: George Kennan's Siberia and the U.S. West,"  WHQ (Autumn 2015).

2015 | Louis S. Warren for "Wage Work in the Sacred Circle: The Ghost Dance as Modern Religion," WHQ Summer 2015, 141-168

2014 | James David Nichols for "The Line of Liberty: Runaway Slaves and Fugitive Peons in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands" (Winter 2013)

2013 | Susan Schulten for “The Civil War and the Origins of the Colorado Territory” (Spring 2013)

2012 | Grace Peña Delgato for “Border Patrol and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903-1910” (Summer 2012)

2011 | Alexandra Koelle for “Pedaling on the Periphery: The African American Twenty-fifth Infantry Bicycle Corps and the Roads of American Expansion”(Autumn, 2010)

2010 | Kent Curtis for “Producing a Gold Rush: National Ambitions and the Northern Rocky Mountains, 1853-1863” (Autumn 2009)

2009 | Benjamin Madley for “California's Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History” (Autumn 2008)

2008 | Marsha Weisiger for “Gendered Injustice: Navajo Livestock Reduction in the New Deal Era” (Winter 2007)

2007 | Kelly Lytle Hernandez for “The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943-1954” (Winter 2006)

2006 | Peter Boag for “Go West Young Man, Go East Young Woman: Searching for the Trans in Western Gender History” (Winter 2005)

2005 | Mark Fiege for “The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape” (Spring 2005)

2004 | Eric V. Meeks for “The Tohono O'odham, Wage Labor, and Resistant Adaptation, 1900-1930” (Winter 2003)

2003 | Louis S. Warren for “Cody‘s Last Stand: Masculine Anxiety, the Custer Myth, and the Frontier of Domesticity in Buffalo Bill‘s Wild West” (Spring 2003)

2002 | Daniel Belgrad for “’Power‘s Larger Meaning‘: The Johnson County War as Political Violence in an Environmental Context” (Summer 2002)

2001 | Michael Lansing for “Plains Indian Women and Interracial Marriage in the Upper Missouri Trade, 1804-1868”(Winter 2000)

2000 | Brian Q. Cannon for “Power Relations: Western Rural Electric Cooperatives and the New Deal” (Summer 2000)

1999 | Joseph E. Taylor III for “El Niño and Vanishing Salmon: Culture, Nature, History, and the Politics of Blame" (Winter 1998)

1998 | Catherine Anne Cavanaugh for “No Place for a Woman‘: Engendering Western Canadian Settlement” (Winter 1997)

1997 | Andrew H. Fisher for “The 1932 Handshake Agreement: Yakama Indian Treaty Rights and Forest Service Policy in the Pacific Northwest” (Summer 1997)

1996 | Alexandra Harmon for “Lines in Sand: Shifting Boundaries Between Indians and Non-Indians in the Puget Sound Region” (Winter 1995)

1995 | Donald J. Pisani for “Squatter Law in California, 1850-1856”(Autumn 1994)

1994 | Michael L. Goldberg for “Non-Partisan and All-Partisan: Rethinking Woman Suffrage and Party Politics in Gilded Age Kansas” (Spring 1994)

1993 | Carl Abbot for “Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century” (August 1992)

1992 | John M. Findlay for “Far Western Cityscapes and American Culture Since 1940” (February 1991)

1991 | Gerald L. McKevitt for “Jesuit Missionary Lingusitics in the Pacific Northwest: A Comparative Study” (August 1990)

1990 | Michael P. Malone for “Beyond the Last Frontier: Toward a New Approach to Western American History”(November 1989)

1989 | Kenneth R. Philip for “Dillon S. Meyer and the Advent of Termination: 1950-1953” (January 1988)

1988 | Paula Petrik for “If She Be Content: The Development of Montana Divorce Law, 1865-1907” (July 1987)

1987 | David H. Dinwoodie for “Indians, Hispanos, and Land Reform: A New Deal Struggle in New Mexico”(July 1986)

1986 | William G. Robbins for “The Social Context of Forestry: The Pacific Northwest in the Twentieth Century” (October 1985)

1985 | Paul W. Gates and Lillian F. Gates for “Canadian and American Land Policy Decisions, 1930” (October 1984)

1984 | Douglas Monroy for “Like Swallows at the Old Mission: Mexicans and the Racial Politics of Growth in Los Angeles in the Interwar Period” (October 1983)

1983 | John J. Culley for “World War II and a Western Town: The Internment of the Japanese Railroad Workers of Clovis, New Mexico” (January 1982).

1982 | John L. Kessell for “General Sherman and the Navajo Treaty of 1868: A Basic and Expedient Misunderstanding” (July 1981)

1981 | Richard Jensen for “On Modernizing Frederick Jackson Turner: The Historiography of Regionalism” (July 1980)

1980 | Michael C. Steiner for “The Significance of Turner‘s Sectional Thesis” (October 1979)

1979 | John Alexander Williams for “A New Look at an Old Field” (July 1978)

1979 | Norris Hundley, Jr. for “The Dark and Bloody Ground of Indian Water Rights: Confusion Elevated to Principle” (October 1978)

1978 | Clyde D. Dollar for “The High Plains Smallpox Epidemic of 1837-38” (January 1977)

1977 | Jackson K. Putnam for “The Turner Thesis and the Westward Movement: A Reappraisal” (October 1976)

1976 | John C. Ewers for “Intertribal Warfare as the Precursor of Indian-White Warfare on the Northern Great Plains” (October 1975)

1975 | Mark Wyman for “Industrial Revolution in the West: Hard-Rock Miners and the New Technology” (January 1974)

1974 | Llerena Friend for “Walter Prescott Webb and Book Reviewing”(October 1973)

1973 | Norris Hundley, Jr. for “Clio Nods: Arizona v. California and the Boulder Canyon Act - A Reassessment”(January 1972)

1972 | W. N. Davis, Jr. for “The Sutler at Fort Bridge” (January 1971)

1971 | Charles S. Peterson for “’A Mighty Man Was Brother Lot’: A Portrait of Lot Smith - Mormon Frontiersman”(October 1970)