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Western Historical Quarterly
The Western Historical Quarterly is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Western History Association. Reflecting the association's mission to cultivate diverse scholarship, the Western Historical Quarterly publishes original articles dealing with the North American West, undefined expansion and colonization, indigenous histories, regional studies (including western Canada, northern Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii), and transnational, comparative, and borderland histories.
Articles undergo rigorous peer review and appear online as part of JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program. Back issues can be found online through most libraries on JSTOR and Ebsco Host. The journal was produced and published by Utah State University's Department of History from 1969 to 2015. In 2016, the journal's editorial offices transferred to the University of Oklahoma Department of History, under the editorial direction of Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dr. Anne Hyde. The journal will be published by Oxford University Press. For more information about the Western Historical Quarterly please visit the journal's website. Contact the WHQ staff at whq1@ou.edu
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2022 WHQ Board of Editors
Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado
Peter Blodgett, Huntington Library
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara
Catherine Denial, Knox College
Sarah Eppler Janda, Cameron University
Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, George Mason University
Andrew Graybill, Southern Methodist University
John Heaton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Steve Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin
Brenda Macdougall, Ottawa University
Jared Orsi, Colorado State University
Charles Rankin, University of Oklahoma, Emeritus
WHQ Staff
Anne Hyde, Editor
Alison Fields, Associate Editor
Louisa Brandt, Book Review Editor
Brenda Frink, Copy Editor
WHQ Editorial Fellows
Michael Ballif and Brendan Thomas
Award-winning Articles
The Western Historical Quarterly has many award-winning articles from multiple academic organizations and professional groups. Each year the WHQ Editorial Board selects the Bert M. Fireman and Janet Fireman Award to the best graduate student article and the Oscar O. Winther Award to the best article to appear in the Western Historical Quarterly the previous year.
2021: Arrington-Prucha Prize, Western History Association.
"'If They Do Not Fulfill What They Have Promised, I Will Accuse Them': Locating Indigenous Women and their Influence in the California Missions" by Martin Rizzo-Martinez, WHQ Autumn 2020.
2020: Bolton-Cutter Award, Western History Association.
"Police, Waterworks, and the Construction of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1924-1954" by C.J. Alvarez, WHQ Winter 2019.
2018: Bolton-Cutter Award, Western History Association.
"Accounting for Conquest: The Price of the Louisiana Purchase of Indian Country" by Robert Lee, WHQ Spring 2017.
2018: Arrell M. Gibson Award, Western History Association.
"Klamath Tribal Persistence, State Resistance: Treaty Rights Activism, the Threat of Tribal Sovereignty and Collaborative Natural Resource Management in the Pacific Northwest" by Monika Bilka, WHQ Autumn 2017.
2017: Michael P. Malone Award, Western History Association.
"Western Spirit of '76: The American Bicentennial and the Making of Conservative Multiculturalism in the Mountain West" by Laura Barraclough, WHQ Summer 2016.
"A Tale of Two Sisters: Family Histories from the Strait Salish Borderlands" by Katrina Jagodinsky, WHQ Summer 2016.
2017: Judith Lee Ridge Prize, Western Association of Woman Historians.
"Migrant Longing, Courtship, and Gendered Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" by Miroslava Chávez-García, WHQ Summer 2016.
2017: Bolton-Cutter Award, Western History Association.
"Migrant Longing, Courtship, and Gendered Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" by Miroslava Chávez-García, WHQ Summer 2016.
"Wage Work in the Sacred Circle: The Ghost Dance as Modern Religion" Louis Warren, WHQ Summer 2015.
2016: Judith Lee Ridge Prize, Western Association of Woman Historians.
"A' Ghàidhealtachd and the North American West" by Margaret Connell-Szasz, WHQ Spring 2015.
2016: Western Heritage Awards Best Magazine Article, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
"Finding the American West in Twenty-First Century Italy" by Renee M. Laegreid, WHQ Winter 2015.
2016: James Madison Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government.
"The Price of Pima Cotton: The Cooperative Testing and Demonstration Farm at Sacaton, Arizona and the Decline of the Pima Agricultural Economy, 1907-1920" by Jennifer Bess, WHQ Summer 2014.
"The Line of Liberty: Runaway Slaves and Fugitive Peons in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands," by James David Nichols, WHQ Winter 2013.
2014: Judith Lee Ridge Prize. Western Association of Women Historians.
"A Town Full of Dead Mexicans: The Salinas Valley Bracero Tragedy of 1963, the End of the Bracero Program, and the Evolution of California's Chicano Movement," by Lori A. Flores, WHQ Summer 2013.
2013: Judith Lee Ridge Prize. Western Association of Women Historians.
"Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903–1910," by Grace Peña Delgado, WHQ Summer 2012.
2013: Joan Jensen / Darlis Miller Prize. Coalition for Western Women's History.
"Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903–1910," by Grace Peña Delgado, WHQ Summer 2012.
2013: Bolton-Cutter Award. Western History Association.
"Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903–1910," by Grace Peña Delgado, WHQ Summer 2012.
2013: Arrell M. Gibson Award. Western History Association.
"Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization: The ‘Touch of Civilisation’ on the Sioux and Kazakhs,” by Steven Sabol, WHQ Spring 2012.
2013: Robert F. Heizer Award. American Society for Ethnohistory.
"Provisioning the HBC: Market Economies in the British Buffalo Commons in the Early Nineteenth Century,” by George Colpitts, WHQ Summer 2012.
2013: Aboriginal History Study Group, Best Article/Chapter Prize. Canadian Historical Association.
"Divided Waters: Heiltsuk Spatial Management of Herring Fisheries and the Politics of Native Sovereignty," Miles Powell, WHQ Winter 2012.
2013: Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction, Western Writers of America.
"Marathoner Louis Tewanima and the Continuity of Hopi Running, 1908–1912," Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, WHQ Autumn 2012.
2012: Oral History Association Article Award, Honorable Mention. Oral History Association.
"Blacks on Brown: Intra-Community Debates Over School Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas, 1941-1955,” by Charise Cheney, WHQ Winter 2011.
2012: Arrell M. Gibson Award. Western History Association.
"Indian or Freedman?: Enrollment, Race, and Identity in the Choctaw Nation, 1896–1907," by Jesse T. Schreier, WHQ Winter 2011.
2012: Judith Lee Ridge Prize. Western Association of Women Historians.
“Blacks on Brown: Intra-Community Debates Over School Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas, 1941-1955,” by Charise Cheney, WHQ Winter 2011.
2011: Arrell M. Gibson Award. Western History Association.
"Making Indian Land in the Allotment Era: Northern California's Indian Rancherias," by Kahl Schneider,WHQ Winter 2010.
2010: Berkshire Conference Article Prize. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
"Reconciliation and Restitution in the American West," by Sherry L. Smith, WHQ Spring 2010.
2010: LeRoy S. Axland Memorial Foundation Best Utah History Article Award. Utah Historical Society.
"Race, Religion, and Citizenship in Mormon Country: Native Hawaiians in Salt Lake City, 1869-1889," by Matthew Kester, WHQ Spring 2009.
2010: Bolton-Cutter Award. Western History Association.
"The Citizenship Sacrifice: Mexican Americans, the Saunders-Leonard Report, and the Politics of Immigration, 1951-1952," by Carlos Kevin Blanton, WHQ Autumn 2009.
2009: Arrell M. Gibson Award. Western History Association.
"California's Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History," by Benjamin Madley, WHQAutumn 2008.
2008: Oral History Association Article Award. Oral History Association.
"Fighting to Stay in Smeltertown: Lead Contamination and Environmental Justice in a Mexican American Community," by Monica Perales, WHQ Spring 2008.
2008: Joan Jensen / Darlis Miller Prize. Coalition for Western Women's History.
"The Pachuca Panic: Sexual and Cultural Battlegrounds in World War II Los Angeles," by Elizabeth R. Escobedo, WHQ Summer 2007.
2007: Theodore C. Blegen Award. Forest History Society.
"A New Game in the North: Alaska Native Reindeer Herding, 1890-1940," by Roxanne Willis, WHQAutumn 2006.
2007: Wayne D. Rasmussen Award. Agricultural History Society.
"A New Game in the North: Alaska Native Reindeer Herding, 1890-1940," by Roxanne Willis, WHQAutumn 2006.
2007: Utah State Historical Society Award. Utah State Historical Society.
"Branding Utah: Industrial Tourism in the Postwar American West, by Susan Sessions Rugh, WHQWinter 2006.
2007: Bolton-Kinnaird Award. Western History Association.
"The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943-1954,” by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, WHQ Winter 2006.
2007: Michael P. Malone Award. Western History Association.
"Branding Utah: Industrial Tourism in the Postwar American West,” by Susan Sessions Rugh, WHQWinter 2006.
2006: Oral History Association Article Award. Oral History Association.
"American in the Hand, Homeland in the Heart: Transnational and Translocal Immigrant Experiences in the American West," by Elliott R. Barkan, WHQ Autumn 2004.
2006: Theodore C. Blegen Award. Forest History Society.
"The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape," by Mark Fiege, WHQ Spring 2005.
2006: Arrell M. Gibson Award. Western History Association.
"Maternal Colonialism: White Women and Indigenous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940," by Margaret D. Jacobs, WHQ Winter 2005.
2006: Arrington-Prucha Prize in Western American Religious History.Western History Association.
"Resistance and Accommodation in a Border Parish," by Anthony Mora, WHQ Autumn 2005.
2006: Wayne D. Rasmussen Award. The Agricultural History Society.
"The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape," by Mark Fiege, WHQ Spring 2005.
2006: Alice Hamilton Prize. American Society for Environmental History.
"The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape," by Mark Fiege, WHQ Spring 2005.
2005: Theodore C. Blegen Award. Forest History Society.
"The View from Sand Island: Reconsidering the Peripheral Economy," by James Feldman, WHQAutumn 2004.
2005: Bolton-Kinnaird Award. Western History Association.
"Texas Rangers, Canadian Mounties, and the Policing of the Transnational Industrial Frontier, 1885-1910," by Andrew Graybill, WHQ Summer 2004.
2004: Bolton-Kinnaird Award. Western History Association.
"The Tohono O'odham, Wage Labor, and Resistant Adaptation, 1900-1930," by Eric V. Meeks, WHQWinter 2003
2004: Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction, Western Writers of America.
"Reconstructing Race," by Elliott West, WHQ Spring 2003.
2003: Arrell M. Gibson Award, Western History Association.
"Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889--1920s," by Thomas G. Andrews, WHQ Winter 2002.
2003: Arrington-Prucha Prize in Western American Religious History, Western History Association.
"Protestantism, Progress, and Prosperity: John P. Clum and 'Civilizing' the U.S.Southwest," by Douglas Firth Anderson, WHQ Autumn 2002.
2002: Arrell M. Gibson Award, Western History Association.
"They Mean To Be Indian Always: The Origins of Columbia River Indian Identity, 1860--1885," by Andrew H. Fisher, WHQ Winter 2001.
2001: James Madison Prize, The Society for History in the Federal Government.
"Power Relations: Western Rural Electric Cooperatives and the New Deal," by Brian Q. Cannon,WHQ Summer 2000.
2000: James Madison Prize, The Society for History in the Federal Government.
"In Search of the 'Federal Presence' in the American West," by Karen R. Merrill, WHQ Winter 1999.
1999: Theodore C. Blegen Award, Forest History Society.
"El Nino and Vanishing Salmon: Culture, Nature, History, and the Politics of Blame," by Joseph E. Taylor III, WHQ Winter 1998.
1998: Theodore C. Blegen Award, Forest History Society.
"The 1932 Handshake Agreement: Yakama Indian Treaty Rights and Forest Service Policy in the Pacific Northwest," by Andrew H. Fisher, WHQ Summer 1997.
1998: Joan Jensen / Darlis Miller Prize, Coalition of Western Women's Historians.
"'No Place for a Woman': Engendering Western Canadian Settlement," by Catherine A. Cavanaugh,WHQ Winter 1997.
1996: Joan Jensen / Darlis Miller Prize, Coalition for Western Women's History.
"Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers' Activism, 1919-1974," by Irene Ledesma, WHQ Autumn 1995.
1994: Bryant Spann Memorial Prize, Eugene V. Debs Foundation.
"'Padrones and Protest: 'Old' Radicals and 'New' Immigrants in Bingham, Utah, 1905-1912," by Gunther Peck, WHQ May 1993.
1994: Don D. Walker Prize, Western Literature Association
"'A Memory Sweet to Soldiers': The Significance of Gender in the History of the 'American West'," by Susan Lee Johnson, WHQ November 1993.
1994: Joan Jensen / Darlis Miller Prize, Coalition for Western Women's History.
“'A Memory Sweet to Soldiers': The Significance of Gender in the History of the 'American West'," by Susan Lee Johnson, WHQ November 1993.
1991: Joan Jensen / Darlis Miller Prize, Coalition for Western Women's History.
"'At Their Peril'---Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850-1900," by Carol Cornwall Madsen,WHQ November 1990.
1991: Bolton-Kinnaird Award, Western History Association.
“The Mexican Boundary Survey Team: Pedro Garcia Conde in California,” by Harry P. Hewitt, WHQMay 1990
1986: Herbert E. Bolton Award, Western History Association.
“Finding the Way Home: Spanish Exploration of the Round-Trip Route across the Pacific Ocean,” by Harry Kelsey, WHQ April 1986.
1982: Herbert E. Bolton Award, Western History Association.
“‘Hardly a Farm House---A Kitchen without Them‘: Indian and White Households on the California Borderland Frontier in 1860,” by Albert L. Hurtado, WHQ July 1982.
1977: Herbert E. Bolton Award, Western History Association.
“Californios and the Image of Indolence,” by David J. Langum, WHQ April 1978.
1976: Herbert E. Bolton Award, Western History Association.
“Massacre at San Pedro de la Cueva: The True Significance of Pancho Villa‘s Disastrous Sonora Campaign,” by Thomas H. Naylor, WHQ April 1977.
1974: Herbert E. Bolton Award, Western History Association.
“A Rare and Desolate Land: Population and Race in Hispanic California,” by Daniel Garr, WHQ April 1975.
1973: Herbert E. Bolton Award, Western History Association.
“Friars versus Bureaucrats: The Mission as a Threatened Institution on the Arizona-Sonora Frontier, 1767-1842,” by John L. Kessell, WHQ April 1974.
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