The Center for Great Plains Studies is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2011 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, May 2, 2012.
The Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize was created to emphasize the interdisciplinary importance of the Great Plains in today’s publishing and educational market. Only first edition, full-length, nonfiction books published in 2011 were evaluated for the award. The author of the winning title will receive a $5,000 cash prize and will be invited to present a lecture at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Debating Texas Identity
Where the West Begins
Glen Sample Ely, Fort Worth Texas
Forward by Alwyn Barr
Publisher:
Texas Tech University Press
Principle over Party
R. Alton Lee, Professor Emeritus of History, University of South Dakota
Publisher:
South Dakota State
Historical Society Press
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory
James N. Leiker, Associate Professor of History, Johnson County Community College
Ramon Powers, former Executive Director of the Kansas State Historical Society
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press
Sustaining the Cherokee Family
Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation
Rose Stremlau, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina
Press
The Notorious Dr. Flippin
Jamie Q. Tallman, Lincoln, Nebraska
Publisher:
Texas Tech University Press
Will Rogers
A Political Life
Richard D. White, Jr., Professor of Public Administration, Louisiana State University
Publisher:
Texas Tech University Press