О премии

«Шпора» - литературная премия, ежегодно присуждаемая «Западными писателями Америки» (WWA). Одна из самых престижных наград в американской литературе.

Цель премии - почтить писателей за выдающиеся работы об американском Западе.

Премия вручается с 1953 года, в том же году была основана WWA. Чтобы получить награду, автору не обязательно быть членом WWA.

Первое время премия присуждалась в пяти номинациях. Со временем список номинаций расширился, некоторые номинации были переименованы.
Каждый год не обязательно вручение премии в каждой номинации.

Кроме «Шпоры» «Западные писатели Америки» с 1961 года присуждают еще одну награду - Премию Оуэна Уистера за выдающиеся достижения в западной литературе.
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Имена лауреатов премии, как правило, объявляются весной. Вручение премии проходит в торжественной обстановке в июне, на конгрессе «Западных писателей Америки» (WWA) в разных городах США.

Жанры: Зарубежная литература, Современная зарубежная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1953 г. Последнее вручение: 2024 г. Официальный сайт: http://westernwriters.org/spur-awards/

Номинации

Лучший западный роман
Spur Award for Best Western Novel

Премия вручалась с 1953 по 2013 год.

Лучший роман Запада
Spur Award for Best Novel of the West

Премия вручается с 1988 года.

Лучший современный западный роман
Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Novel

Премия вручается с 1993 года.

Лучший западный исторический роман
Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel

Премия вручается с 1953 года.

Лучший традиционный роман
Spur Award for Best Western Traditional Novel

Премия вручается с 2014 года.

Лучший роман для несовершеннолетних
Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Премия вручается с 1953 года.

Лучший первый роман
Spur Award for Best First Novel

Премия вручается с 1969 года.

Лучшая западная научно-популярная историческая литература
Spur Award for Best Western Historical Nonfiction

Премия вручается с 1954 года.

Лучшая современная западная научно-популярная литература
Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Премия вручается с 2018 года.

Лучшая западная биография
Spur Award for Best Western Biography

Премия вручается с 1994 года.

Лучшая западная научно-популярная литература для детей
Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Премия вручается с 1959 года.

Лучшая первая научно-популярная книга
Spur Award for Best First Nonfiction Book

Премия вручается с 2015 года.

Лучший западный рассказчик (Иллюстрированная детская книга)
Spur Award for Best Western Storyteller (Illustrated Children's Book)

Премия вручается с 1995 года.

Лучшая западная краткая проза
Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction

Премия вручалась с 1953 по 2012 год.

Лучшая западная краткая документальная проза
Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction

Премия вручается с 1969 года.

Лучшая западная поэзия
Spur Award for Best Western Poem

Премия вручается с 2001 года.

Лучший западный драматический сценарий
Spur Award for Best Western Drama Script

Премия вручается с 1972 года.

Лучший массовый роман в мягкой обложке
Best Western Mass Market Paperback Novel

Премия вручается с 1979 года.

Лучший западный любовный роман
Best Western Romance Novel

Премия вручается с 2018 года.

Лучший рецензент
Spur Award for Reviewer

Премия вручается с 1953 года.

Специальная награда
Special Award

Вручается с 1977 года.

Премия носителя медицинской трубки
Medicine Pipe Bearer Award

Премия вручалась с 1979 по 2003 год.

Лучшая аудиокнига
Spur Award for Best Western Audiobook

Премия вручалась с 2007 по 2013 год.

Лучшая документальная литература
Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction

Премия вручалась с 1954 по 1992 год. С 1993 года номинация разделилась на несколько номинаций: историческая, современная, краткая, дебютная и детская научно-популярная литература.

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The Longmire Defense
Крейг Джонсон 0.0
Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West.

Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's grandfather's time in Wyoming, as the revelations he learns about his grandfather come back to offer clues and motives for Walt's investigation. Filled with back-country action, and with the great cast of characters that readers have come to love with the Longmire series, this new book will be sure to satisfy both long-time readers and those new to the series.
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Лучший западный исторический роман
Death In The Tallgrass: A Young Man's Journey Through The Western Frontier
Donald Willerton 0.0
“This is a beautiful, smart, engaging, enraging book. It is gentle and thoughtful and fierce. The characters and their relationships with each other are extraordinarily well-drawn. The various settings are vivid. These were real people in real places living real lives.” Pamela S., EditorDeath in the Tallgrass follows a young man in 1904 as he searches for his mother’s brother, kidnapped by Comanche warriors thirty-four years before. Crossing the rugged prairies and canyons of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, Harry Bonner is confronted by land, people, and cultures that challenge his upbringing as a privileged child of a wealthy family. He battles Comanche magic, puzzles his way through dreams of his uncle fighting against his enemies, and suffers the brutality of men terrorizing the Texas countryside, all while being consumed by a new-found love in the unlikeliest of people.When that love is taken from him, Harry explodes with violence and rage, betraying the personal values he has always respected. He is emotionally adrift on the prairie when he is called to witness the last episode of his uncle’s life."...an excellent, gripping novel and I thoroughly enjoyed it." Avner L., Editor
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Лучший западный исторический роман
The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery
Thomas Goodman 0.0
When Santa Claus enters a Texas bank just before Christmas in 1927, no one expects him to pull a gun.

The fake white beard hides his identity from his neighbors while he and three others take everything. But their easy heist goes sideways fast when armed lawmen and citizens assemble to claim a new reward for dead bank robbers.

Taking hostages, the gang forces a path through a frenzied and bloody shootout, setting the whole Lone Star state on their trail.

One bandit dies in the getaway. One is executed in the electric chair. One swings from a rope in a mob lynching. The last man finds a life he always hoped for … if only he can keep it.

Closely based on a true story, The Last Man is a gritty Prohibition-era crime novel filled with flawed characters and second chances.
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Лучший традиционный роман
Aesop's Travels
Daniel Boyd 0.0
DANIEL BOYD'S AESOP’S TRAVELS

HE HAD THE MIND OF A CHILD
AND THE HANDS OF A KILLER!
AESOP’S TRAVELS

A Crackerjack Tale of the Old West
They rode out with Aesop
on a journey of Murder and Revenge.

The Bartender
The Old Scout
The Outlaw
The Gambler

They rode with Aesop
TO STOP HIM FROM KILLING AGAIN!

“My only regret is that Daniel Boyd hasn’t been writing for
many years. If he were as prolific as Donald Westlake or Mickey
Spillane or even Max Allan Collins, I would have an entire shelf
dedicated to him.”
— Mark A. Wyatt, AMAZON

“...Life and death and men on the borderline between the
two... told by a man who reads both BLACK MASK magazine
and HAMLET, and knows the essentials of each.”
— Steve Lewis, MYSTERY*FILE

“...Will keep readers turning pages, shaking heads, and
thoroughly enjoying a wild ride.”
— ROUNDUP Magazine
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A Sky Full of Song
Сьюзан Линн Мейер 0.0
North Dakota, 1905

After fleeing persecution in the Russian Empire, eleven-year-old Shoshana and her family, Jewish immigrants, start a new life on the prairie. Shoshana takes fierce joy in the wild beauty of the plains and the thrill of forging a new, American identity. But it’s not as simple for her older sister, Libke, who misses their Ukrainian village and doesn’t pick up English as quickly or make new friends as easily. Desperate to fit in, Shoshana finds herself hiding her Jewish identity in the face of prejudice, just as Libke insists they preserve it.

For the first time, Shoshana is at odds with her beloved sister, and has to look deep inside herself to realize that her family’s difference is their greatest strength. By listening to the music that’s lived in her heart all along, Shoshana finds new meaning in the Jewish expression all beginnings are difficult , as well as in the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the North Dakota prairie.
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
Эллиотт Уэст 0.0
In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations.

Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West’s extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life.

As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.
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The Lost Cowboy
J.B. Zielke 0.0
Is it Possible to ‘Cowboy’ on Six Continents? That is just what J. B. Zielke did in his early twenties. Argentina to Mongolia, Mexico to Australia this book takes you to places that you may not have even realized there are cowboys. Gunfights, feral bulls, bank truck robberies, and little old men riding reindeer are all part of this modern-day international cowboy journey. Being a cowboy is a dangerous occupation no matter where in the world it’s done. There are many similarities among cowboys all over the world but even more, differences are discussed in this book. It will leave you with a new appreciation for the problems ranchers face all over the world. Whether you live in a big city high-rise or on a ranch this collection of true stories will have you on the edge of your seat. “As cattlemen, we dream of what life was like on a trail crew driving herds north with no fences in sight. Places where technology fades away, and the spirit of the wild is still king. Something has driven J.B. to travel to where the modern world has just begun to meet the untamed land. In this book, he records what those worlds are like while they still exist." Colter Wall
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Лучшая западная биография
Sacajawea: Mystery, Myth, and Legend
Candy Moulton 0.0
Myth, mystery, and legend surround Sacajawea, one of the few American Indian women whose name and singular significance have not been lost to history. Without Sacajawea's knowledge and assistance, the Corps of Discovery's venture to explore the furthest reaches of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase may well have failed.
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Bass Reeves: Legendary Lawman of the Wild West
Billie Holladay Skelley 0.0
Bass Reeves started life as a slave, but he grew up to be one of the most respected lawmen in the West. In 1875, Judge Isaac C. Parker hired Reeves as a deputy U.S. marshal because he knew Reeves was familiar with the terrain of Indian Territory, was on friendly terms with several Native American tribes, and could speak their languages-three factors that were extremely advantageous for tracking down criminals in such a lawless, sprawling region. (Children's Biography)
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Grandma's Tipi: A Present-Day Lakota Story
С. Д. Нельсон 0.0
A young girl spends the summer at her grandmother’s home on the Standing Rock Reservation in this illustrated, heartwarming family story from acclaimed, award-winning author-artist S. D. Nelson.

Now that Clara is almost in third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup the tipi that’s been passed down through their family for generations.

The girls learn how to stack the poles and wrap the canvas covering around them, how to paint spirit pictures on its walls, and how the circle of the tipi tells its own story, reminding us how to live in the great Circle of Life. Over long days spent playing outside, doing beadwork together, telling stories, singing songs, and sleeping under the stars, the tipi brings the family closer together.

As summer draws to an end, goodbye comes all too soon, but Clara will always cling to the memories of summer days and starry nights . . . and Grandma’s tipi.
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Gunmetal Mountain
Джон Ширли 0.0
The latest in a thrilling new western series from John Shirley, the acclaimed author of Prairie Fire, Kansas .

FOLLOW THE LEADER—OR MEET YOUR MAKER

They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. But it’s hard to know what’s going on inside the twisted mind of Magnus Lamb, the charismatic leader of an isolated logging town known for its healing hot springs. Some might say he’s created a peaceful utopia here on Gunmetal Mountain. But for Cleveland Trewe and his lovely traveling companion Berry, this little piece of heaven is more like Hell on Earth . . .

Cleve and Berry first discover the town after an encounter with a dangerous band of Indians. Cleve to vow to find "the Coyote," a young brave last seen headed for the strange settlement of Lambsville. At first, Cleve and Berry are charmed by the town’s natural beauty and simple way of life. But soon they see the community for what it really a brainwashed cult with some oddball beliefs, a rigid caste system, and a leader who thinks he’s the new Messiah. This not-so-innocent Lamb has heard about Cleve’s legendary gunfighting skills and wants him to lead an army to expand his power across the West. It’s bound to be a bloodsoaked mission, and Cleve wants no part of it. But if he refuses, there’ll be hell to pay . . .
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Love on Target
Шанна Хэтфилд 0.0
Will romance hit its mark when true love is the target?

Desperate for a fresh start, Rena Burke journeys from Texas to Oregon with only her father’s pistol and a plodding old mule for company. She takes a job working with explosives at a mine, spends her free time emulating her hero Annie Oakley, and secretly longs to be loved.

Saddle maker Josh Gatlin has one purpose in life and that is his daughter. Gabi is his joy and the sunshine in his days. Then he meets a trouser-wearing woman living life on her own terms. Rena is nothing like his perception of what he wants in a wife and mother for his child, but she might just prove to be everything he needs.

When tragedy strikes, will the two of them be able to release past wounds and embrace the possibilities tomorrow may bring?
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The Heart Beneath the Badge
George T. Arnold 0.0
Winner of the 2024 Spur Award

When Sheriff Heath Royal seeks relief for his tormented conscience by attending church services for the first time since his youth, he is beckoned to an empty seat by the wealthy, recently widowed Rebekka Korhenen Brando, and both are immediately, although unwittingly, stirred by an unintentional rekindling of the feelings that almost led to a marriage between them twenty-five years earlier.

Gossipy church members and malicious tongue waggers from the small community of Shady Spring, Texas, watch in amusement and sometimes in horror as the former lovers struggle through a series of challenges and near-death experiences to determine whether the forces of evil or the roundabout intervention of God Himself will allow them a life together.

Standing in their way is a demented ranch foreman convinced that he and Rebekka are destined for each other. Heath’s dubious future as a lawman, and grudge-bearing outlaws who want to put the sheriff into his grave. The solutions may be divined under the sheltering limbs of a magnificent old oak tree where Heath and Rebekka seek solace and open their hearts to each other.
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