1979

Best Western Novel: Riders to Cibola, by Norma Zollinger.
Best Movie: Comes a Horseman, screenplay by Dennis Lynton Clark.
Best TV: How the West Was Won, screenplay by Calvin Clements, John Mantley and Earl W. Wallace.
Best Nonfiction: Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn, by Janet Lecompte.
Best Short Subject: A Season for Heroes, by Carla Kelly (Far West, 1978).

1978

Best Western Novel: The Great Horse Race, by Fred Grove.
Best Novel of the West: Swimming Man Burning, by Terrence Kilpatrick.
Best TV: Cully Madigan, screenplay by William Kelley (How the West Was Won).
Best Nonfiction: The Cowgirls, by Joyce Gibson Roach.
Best Short Nonfiction: Where the Cowboys Hunkered Down, by John L. Sinclair (New Mexico Magazine, 1977).
Special Award: August Lenniger
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Agnes Wright Spring

1977

Best Western Novel: The Spirit Horses, by Lou Cameron.
Best Western Novel: The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer, by Douglas C. Jones.
Best Novel of the West: The Kincaids, by Matt Braun.
Best TV: The Macahans, screenplay by James T. Byrnes.
Best TV: Hatchers Drive, screenplay by Katharyn M. Powers and Michael Michaelian.
Best Nonfiction: The Vanishing Whiteman, by Stan Steiner.
Best Short Subject: Jonathan Gilliam & The White Man's Burden, by C.L. Sonnichsen (Persimmon Hill, 1976).
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Elmer Kelton

1976

Best Western Novel: The Shootist, by Glendon Swarthout.
Best Novel of the West: Lamy of Santa Fe, by Paul Horgan.
Best TV: The Busters, screenplay by James T. Byrnes (Gunsmoke).
Best Short Subject: Apaches in the History of the Southwest, by Donald Worcester (New Mexico Historical Review, 1975).

1975

Best Western Novel: A Hanging In Sweetwater, by Stephen Overholser.
Best TV: Thirty a Month and Found, screenplay by James T. Byrnes (Gunsmoke).
Best Nonfiction: Colonel Green and the Copper Skyrocket, by C.L. Sonnichsen.
Best Short Nonfiction: The Other Nevadan, by Robert Laxalt (National Geographic, 1974).
Best Short Nonfiction: Buried Money, by Eve Ball (True West Magazine, 1974).

1974

Best Western Novel: The Time It Never Rained, by Elmer Kelton.
Best TV: The Deadly Innocent, screenplay by Calvin Clements (Gunsmoke).
Best Nonfiction: Burnt Out Fires, by Richard Dillon.
Best Short Subject: The Comancheros, by John Harrell (New Mexico Magazine, 1973).

1973

Best Western Novel: A Killing in Kiowa, by Lewis B. Patten.
Best Novel of the West: Chiricahua, by Will Henry.
Best TV: Bohannon, screenplay by William Kelley (Gunsmoke).
Best Nonfiction: The Time of the Buffalo, by Tom McHugh.
Best Short Subject: Call of the Cow Country, by Harry E. Webb (Westerner Magazine, 1972).

1972

Best Western Novel: The Day the Cowboys Quit, by Elmer Kelton.
Best Drama: Doc, screenplay by Pete Hamill.
Best TV: Lynotte, screenplay by Ron Bishop (Gunsmoke).
Best Nonfiction: Western Life and Adventures, by Elliott Barker.
Best Short Subject: Shootout in Burke Canyon, by Earl Clark (American Heritage, 1971).

1971

Best Western Novel: The Last Days of Wolf Garnett, by Clifton Adams.
Best TV: Chato, screenplay by Paul Edwards (Gunsmoke).
Best Nonfiction: The Buffalo, by Francis Haines.
Best Short Subject: In the Silence, by Peggy Simson Curry (Boys Life, 1970).
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Thomas Thompson

1970

Best Western Novel: Tragg's Choice, by Clifton Adams.
Best Novel of the West: The White Man's Road, by Benjamin Capps.
Best First Western Novel: Big with Vengence, by Cecil Snyder.
Best Juvenile Western Novel: The Meeker Massacre, by Wayne D. Overholser and Lewis Patten.
Best TV: Zee, screenplay by Andy Lewis.
Best Nonfiction: Boss Cowman, by Nellie Snyder Yost.
Best Short Subject: Westward to Blood and Glory, by Cliff Farrell.

1969

Best Western Novel: Down the Long Hills, by Louis L'Amour.
Best Novel of the West: The Red Sabbath, by Lewis Patten.
Best Short Material: When the Caballos Came, by Fred Grove (Boys Life, 1968).
Best Nonfiction: Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West, by Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes.

1968

Best Western Novel: The Valdez Horses, by Lee Hoffman.
Best Novel of the West: The Wolf is My Brother, by Chad Oliver.
Best Short Material: The Guns of William Longley, by Donald Hamilton (Gold Medal Books Western Writers of America Anthology, 1967).
Best Nonfiction: America's Western Frontiers, by John Hawgood.

1967

Best Western Novel: My Brother John, by Herbert R. Purdum.
Best Novel of the West: Hellfire Jackson, by Garland Roark and Charles Thomas.
Best Short Story: Empty Saddles at Christmas, by S. Omar Barker (Western Horseman, 1966).
Best Nonfiction: America's Frontier Heritage, by Ray Billington.
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: S. Omar Barker

1966

Best Western Novel: Sam Chance, by Benjamin Capps.
Best Novel of the West: Gold in California, by Todhunter Ballard.
Best Novel of the West: Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher.
Best Short Material: Tallest Indian in Tolepec, by Will Henry.
Best Nonfiction: The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, by Alvin M. Josephy.

1965

Best Western Novel: The Trail to Ogallala, by Benjamin Capps.
Best Novel of the West: Indian Fighter, by E.E. Halloran.
Best Short Story: Log Studio of C.M. Russell, by Lola Shelton (American Scene Magazine, 1964).
Best Nonfiction: Field Notes of Capt. William Clark, by E.S. Osgood.
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Benjamin F. Capps
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

1964

Best Western Novel: Follow the Free Wind, by Leigh Brackett.
Best Novel of the West: Gates of the Mountains, by Will Henry.
Best Short Story: Comanche Woman, by Fred Grove (Avon Western Writers of America Anthology, 1963).
Best Nonfiction: The Bonanza West, by William S. Greever.
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Mari Sandoz

1963

Best Western Novel: Comanche Captives, by Fred Grove.
Best Novel of the West: Moon Trap, by Don Berry.
Best Short Story: Isley's Stranger, by Will Henry (Doubleday Western Writers of America Anthology, 1962).
Best Nonfiction: Great Surveys of the American West, by R.A. Bartlett.

1962

Best Western Novel: The Honyocker, by Giles Lutz.
Best Novel of the West: The Winter War, by Willliam Wister Haines.
Best Short Story: A Town Named Hate, by John Prebble (Saturday Evening Post, 1961).
Best Nonfiction: Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, by Don Russell.

1961

Best Western Novel: The Nameless Breed, by Will C. Brown.
Best Novel of the West: From Where the Sun Now Stands, by Will Henry.
Best Short Story: The Shaming of Broken Horn, by Bill Gulick (Saturday Evening Post, 1960).
Best Nonfiction: South Pass 1868, edited by Lola M. Homsher.

1960

Best Western Novel: Long Run, by Nelson Nye.
Best Novel of the West: The Buffalo Soldiers, by John Prebble.
Best Short Story: Grandfather Out of the Past, by Noel Loomis (Frontiers West, 1959).
Best Nonfiction: Day of San Jacinto, by Frank Tolbert.

1959

Best Western Novel: Short Cut to Red River, by Noel Loomis.
Best Novel of the West: The Fancher Train, by Amelia Bean.
Best Short Story: Thief in Camp, by Bill Gulick (Saturday Evening Post, 1958).
Best Nonfiction: Cripple Creek Days, by Mabel Barbee Lee.
Saddleman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Nelson Nye

1958

Best Western Novel: Buffalo Wagons, by Elmer Kelton.
Best Novel of the West: Silver Mountain, by Dan Cushman.
Best Short Story: The Brushoff, by Peggy Simson Curry (The Saturday Evening Post, 1957).
Best Nonfiction: This is the West, edited by Robert West Howard.

1957

Best Western Novel: High Gun, by Leslie Ernenwein.
Best Novel of the West: Generations of Men, by John Clinton Hunt.
Best Short Story: Lost Sister, by Dorothy M. Johnson (Colliers, 1956).
Best Nonfiction: Men to Match My Mountains, by Irving Stone.

1956

Best Western Novel: Somewhere They Die, by L.P. Holmes.
Best Short Story: Bad Company, by S. Omar Barker (The Saturday Evening Post, 1955).
Best Nonfiction: Shoot-Up Country, by Paul F. Sharp.

1955

Best Western Novel: The Violent Land, by Wayne D. Overholser.
Best Novel of the West: Journey by the River, by John Prescott.
Best Short Story: Blood on the Sun, by Thomas Thompson (American Magazine, 1954).
Best Nonfiction: Bent's Fort, by David Lavender.
Best Reviewer: Nelson Nye (for Hoofs & Horns)

1954

Best Western Novel: Lawman, by Lee Leighton.
Best Novel of the West: The Wheel and the Hearth, by Lucia Moore.
Best Short Story: Gun Job, by Thomas Thompson (Collier's, 1953).
Best Reviewer: Hoffman Birney (for The New York Times)