2009

Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild

Michael Forsberg, Conservation Photographer, Lincoln, Nebraska

with Dan O'Brien, David Wishart, and Ted Kooser

2008

The Comanche Empire

Pekka Hämäläinen, Associate Professor of History, University of California at Santa Barbara

2007

Ruling Pine Ridge
Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee

Akim D. Reinhardt, Associate Professor of History, Towson University, Towson, Maryland

2006

Indians and Emigrants:
Encounters on the Overland Trails

Michael L. Tate, Professor of History and Native American Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha

2005

Buffalo Bill's America:
William Cody and the Wild West Show

Louis S. Warren, W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History, University of California, Davis