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Nathan Dahlstrom (pen name: S. J. Dahlstrom) is an American children's book author and middle school teacher. [1] He has received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books four times and the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Juvenile Novel twice.
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| Texas Grit | 2015 | Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction: Young Readers | Winner | [2] [ non-primary source needed ] |
| The Elk Hunt | 2015-16 | Lamplighter Award | Nominee | [3] [4] |
| The Green Colt | 2017 | Spur Award for Juvenile Novel | Finalist | [5] [6] |
| Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books | Winner | [6] [7] [8] | ||
| Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction: Young Readers | Winner | [9] [ non-primary source needed ] | ||
| 2018-19 | Lamplighter Award | Nominee | [3] [ non-primary source needed ] | |
| Wilder and Sunny | 2017-2018 | Lamplighter Award | Nominee | [3] [ non-primary source needed ] |
| Black Rock Brothers | 2019 | Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction: Young Readers | Second | [10] [ non-primary source needed ] |
| Silverbelly | 2020 | Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction: Young Readers | Winner | [11] [ non-primary source needed ] |
| 2021 | Spur Award for Juvenile Novel | Winner | [12] [ non-primary source needed ] | |
| Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books | Winner | [13] [ non-primary source needed ] | ||
| 2022-23 | Lamplighter Award | Nominee | [3] [ non-primary source needed ] | |
| Cow Boyhood | 2022 | Spur Award for Juvenile Novel | Winner | [14] [ non-primary source needed ] |
| Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books | Winner | [15] [16] | ||
| Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction - Young Readers | Silver | [17] [ non-primary source needed ] | ||
| Heartwood Mountain | 2024 | Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Books | Winner | [18] [19] [20] |
| Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Young Reader/Fiction | Winner | [21] [ non-primary source needed ] |
Lubbock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 266,878 in 2023, the city is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwestern part of the state, in the Great Plains region, an area known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 360,104 in 2023.
Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry, nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades, beginning in the early 1930s. During that time, he personified the straight-shooting hero — honest, brave, and true.
Roy Rogers, nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American singer, actor, television host, freemason and rodeo performer.
The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Known for their vocal performances, their musicianship, and their songwriting, they produced innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. Since 1933, through many changes in membership, the Sons of the Pioneers have remained one of the longest-surviving country music vocal groups.
Dale Evans Rogers was an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy film star Roy Rogers.
Finis Dean Smith was an American track and field athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics; he was also an actor and noted stuntman, appearing in many films and TV series.
Leonard Barrie Corbin is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Maurice Minnifield on the television series Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Glenna Maxey Goodacre was an American sculptor, best known for having designed the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the US in 2000, and the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, with more than 28,000 Western and Native American art works and artifacts. The facility also has the world's most extensive collection of American rodeo photographs, barbed wire, saddlery, and early rodeo trophies. Museum collections focus on preserving and interpreting the heritage of the American West. The museum becomes an art gallery during the annual Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition and Sale each June. The Prix de West Artists sell original works of art as a fund raiser for the museum. The expansion and renovation was designed by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA of Fentress Architects.
Earl Wesley Bascom was an American-Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and Hollywood actor. Raised in Canada, he portrayed in works of fine art his own experiences of cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West. Bascom was awarded the Pioneer Award by the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2016 and inducted into several halls of fame including the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1984. Bascom was called the "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists," the "Dean of Rodeo Cowboy Sculpture" and the "Father of Modern Rodeo." He was a participant member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Russell "Red" Steagall is an American actor, musician, poet, and stage performer, who focuses on American Western and country music genres.
R. W. Hampton is an American western music singer-songwriter, actor and playwright. Hampton has achieved both critical and commercial success, winning multiple awards from the Western Music Association and the Academy of Western Artists and four separate Wrangler Awards from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Dan Louie Flores is an American writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West. He held the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana until he retired in May 2014.
Mike Kearby is an American novelist and inventor. Since 2005, Kearby has published twelve novels and two graphic novels.
The Academy of Western Artists, based in Gene Autry, Oklahoma, is an organization that honors individuals who have preserved and perpetuated the heritage of the American cowboy, through rodeo, music, poetry, campfire and chuckwagon cooking, and western and ranch clothing and gear.
Anne Windfohr Marion was an American heiress, rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector from Fort Worth, Texas. She served as the president of Burnett Ranches and the chairman of the Burnett Oil Company. She was the founder of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1981, she was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Matthew P. Mayo is an American author of novels and non-fiction books, poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews. He writes about the American West, New England, and in the Western, humor, crime, and horror genres.
Fay Owen "Buster" Welch was an American cutting horse trainer and inductee into the NCHA Members Hall of Fame, American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, NCHA Rider Hall of Fame, and Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. Buster was chosen as the recipient of the 2012 National Golden Spur Award for his "outstanding contributions to the ranching and livestock industry".
Sidney Thompson is an American author, academic, and writing consultant who teaches at Texas Christian University.
Judy Alter is an American novelist and author of both fiction and nonfiction for adults and young adults. Alter writes primarily about the history and literature of Texas and the American West, especially the experiences of women in the nineteenth century. She has also written sixteen cozy mysteries, primarily set in Texas. Over fifty of her young adult non-fiction books have been published for school libraries by Franklin Watts and Scholastic.
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