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Western History Association 2001 Award Winners
 
The Western History Association is pleased to announce that the following awards were presented during the Annual Banquet at the fall conference in San Diego, October 6, 2001. 

Arrell M. Gibson Award 
Paige Raibmon for “Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwada’wakw Meet Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World’s Fair” published in Canadian Historical Review, June 2000. 

Arrington-Prucha Prize
Anne M. Butler for “Western Spaces, Catholic Places” published in U.S. Catholic Historian, Fall 2000. 

Award of Merit
Iris H. Wilson Engstrand 
Frederick Luebke 
Ben Proctor 
Malcolm Rohrbough

Bert M. Fireman Award
Helen McLure for “The Wild, Wild Web: The Mythical American West and the Electronic Frontier” published in Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2000. 

Ray Allen Billington Award 
Scott Zesch for “The Two Captivities of Adolph Korn” published in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, April 2001. 

Bolton-Kinnaird Award
Iris H. Wilson Engstrand for “Of Fish and Men: Spanish Marine Science During the Late Eighteenth Century” published in Pacific Historical Quarterly, November 2000. 

Caughey-Western History Association Prize
Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher for The American West: A New Interpretive History, published by Yale University Press, 2000. 

Honorary Life Memberships
Guy Logsdon 
John L. Allen 

Joan Paterson Kerr Award
Carlos Schwantes for Long Day’s Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West, published by University of Washington Press, 1999. 

Michael P. Malone Award
Walter L. Buenger for “Texas and the South” published in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, January 2000. 

Huntington Library-Western History Association-Martin Ridge Fellowship
Omar Valerio-Jimenez

Oscar O. Winther Award
Michael Lansing for “Plains Indian Women and Interracial Marriage in the Upper Missouri Trade, 1804-1868” published in Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2000. 

Walter Rundell Award
Katherine Benton-University of Wisconsin, Madison for “What About Women in the White Man’s Camp?: Gender, Nation, and the Redefinition of Race in Cochise County, Arizona.”

Sara Jackson Award
Daniel Widener-New York University for “Something Else: Creative Community and Cultural Politics in Black California.” 

W. Turrentine Jackson Award
Susan Lee Johnson for Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, published by W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.


Omar Valerio-Jimenez is presented with the WHA–Huntington–Ridge fellowship 
by James Ronda. 


Mac Rohrbough receives the Award of Merit.


Suzanne Stoner and Elliot West. 


Kerr Prize winners Julidta Tarver and Carlos Schwantes.


Al Lowman accepts an award for the TSHA.


Katherine Benton accepts the 
Walter Rundell Award. 

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