2025
Award Sponsored By Tom & Carla Swearingen
Cowboyin’ With God – Rik “Yonder”Goodell
The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding achievement on writing, reciting and recording original Cowboy Poetry. The award recognizes the poet.
2024
Award Sponsored by Tom & Carla Swearingen
"Real Hands & Treasured Friends"
Miska Paget
2023
No Better Life
2022
The Best Horses in Heaven, They Have No Tails
2021
Horses Tails and Cow Trails
2020
They Come Prancin'
A.K. Moss
2019
The Truth
A.K. Moss
2018
A Good Ride
Terry Nash
2017
The Calf Book
Teresa Burleson
2016
Fillin' Tanks
Susie Knight
2015
Once We Were Kings
Dale Page
2014
How I Taught Bruno a Lesson
Andy Nelson
2013
The Great Divide
Doc Mehl
2012
Western Wordsmith
Susie Knight
2011
Women of the West
Sam DeLeeuw
2010
The Poetry of Larry McWhorter
Larry McWhorter
2009
Beneath a Western Sky
Doris Daley
2008
Pieces of the Past
Yvonne Hollenbeck