HONORS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2006 | 2006 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Documentary for Mountain Massacre (History Channel) |
2005 | 2005 Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, for "'It was but a small affair': The Battle of the Alamo, Wild West (February 2004) as the "Outstanding Magazine Article of 2004" |
2002-2004 | President, Western Writers of America |
2004 | Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Documentary for Carson and Cody: The Hunter Heroes (History Channel, 2003). |
2003 | Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for Best Documentary for Daniel Boone and the Westward Movement (National Park Service, 2002) |
2002 | Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Documentary for Boone and Crockett: The Hunter Heroes (History Channel, 2001) |
2000 | Vice-President, Western Writers of America |
2000 | Western Writers of America Stirrup Award for "Dee Brown: A Life With Books," Roundup Magazine (October 1999) |
1999 | Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, for "T.R. Takes Charge," as the "Outstanding Magazine Article of 1998" |
1998 | Western Writers of America, President's Award |
1996 | Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, for "Showdown at the Hollywood Corral," as the "Outstanding Magazine Article of 1995" |
1992 | John M. Carroll Literary Award, Little Big Horn Associates, for The Custer Reader |
1991 | Vivian A. Paladin Award, Montana Historical Society, for "Correct in Every Detail," as the best essay to appear in Montana The Magazine of Western History in 1991 |
1987 | Ray Allen Billington Award (Organization of American Historians), for Phil Sheridan and His Army |
1986 | Evans Biography Award, for Phil Sheridan and His Army |
1986 | Western Writers of American Spur Award for Best Non-fiction, for Phil Sheridan and His Army |
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