David W. and Beatrice C. Evans Biography Awards

Given by Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, Utah State University

Andre Navne: Evans Biography Award (Engelsk), Evans Handcart Award (Engelsk)
52 Works 4,956 Books 152 Reviews 4.2
Awarded by the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, Utah State University
The Evans Biography Award is a $10,000 prize given to the best biography of a person who lived a significant portion of vis mere his or her life in the Interior West, or, in the words of the awards' founders, "Mormon Country" - that region historically influenced by Mormon institutions and social practices. The region is roughly an expanded Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region, extending south into Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, and north into southern Alberta, Canada.
Evans Biography Award website
First awarded in 1983
1984: two awards listed
1989: no award listed
1991: two awards listed vis mindre
Stages:
Alle, Winner (51), Finalist (1)
Kategorier:
Years:
Alle, 2017 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (2), 2011 (2), 2009, 2010 (2), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (2), 2000 (2), 1999 (2), 1998 (2), 1997 (2), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (2), 1990 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (2), 1985 (1), 1984 (2), 1983 (1)

Winner 51

VærkKategoriÅr
Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History af Gregory A. PrinceBiography Award2017
A Frontier Life af Todd M. ComptonBiography Award2013
Weeds: A Farm Daughter's Lament af Evelyn I. FundaHandcart Award2013
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis af Timothy EganBiography Award2012
Coal in our veins : a personal journey af Erin Ann ThomasHandcart Award2012
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon af William M. AdlerBiography Award2011
Dine Tah: My Reservation Days 1923-1939 af Alwin GirdnerHandcart Award2011
"Liberty to the Downtrodden": Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer af Matthew J. GrowBiography Award2009, 2010
Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion af Ronald G. WattHandcart Award2009, 2010
Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists af Janet ChapmanBiography Award2008
Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart af William B. SmartHandcart Award2008
Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons af Frederick H SwansonBiography Award2007
In the President's Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall 1879-1892 (Significant Mormon Diaries) af Jedediah S. RogersHandcart Award2007
Recollections of Past Days: The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer (Life Writings Frontier Women) af Sandra Ailey PetreeBiography Award2006
Scottish Shepherd: The Life and Times of John Murray Murdoch, Utah Pioneer af Kenneth W. MerrellHandcart Award2006
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling af Richard L. BushmanBiography Award2005
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism af Gregory A. PrinceHandcart Award2005
Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975 af Eva Tulene WattBiography Award2004
Gathering in Harmony af Stephen L. PrinceHandcart Award2004
Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory af Virginia KernsBiography Award2003
Writing for Her Life: The Novelist Mildred Walker af Ripley HugoHandcart Award2003
One Side By Himself (Western Experience Series) af Ronald O. BarneyBiography Award2002
When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood (Women in the West) af Margaret BellHandcart Award2002
Sarah Winnemucca af Sally ZanjaniBiography Award2001
Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867 af Eilean AdamsHandcart Award2001
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell af Donald WorsterBiography Award2000
Journey Of Navajo Oshley: An Autobiography and Life History af Robert McphersonHandcart Award2000
George Q. Cannon, a Biography af Davis BittonBiography Award1999
Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftan, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887 af Scott ChristensenHandcart Award1999
From Mission to Madness: LAST SON OF THE MORMON PROPHET af Valeen Tippetts AveryBiography Award1998
The Christensen brothers : an American dance epic af Debra Hickenlooper SowellHandcart Award1998
Mahonri Young, His Life and Art af Thomas E. TooneBiography Award1997
Mormon midwife : the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions af Donna SmartHandcart Award1997
Wallace Stegner, His Life and Work af Jackson J. BensonBiography Award1996
Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards (Life Writings of Frontier Women, Vol 1) af Mary Haskin Parker RichardsHandcart Award1996
Lowell L. Bennion, Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian af Mary Lythgoe BradfordBiography Award1995
Barry Goldwater af Robert Alan GoldbergBiography Award1995
Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church af LeRoy AshbyBiography Award1994
Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth af Shirley A. LeckieBiography Award1993
Heart Earth af Ivan DoigBiography Award1992
Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet af Thomas G. AlexanderBiography Award1991
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place af Terry Tempest WilliamsBiography Award1991
River of Traps af William deBuysBiography Award1990
Joseph Smith III, Pragmatic Prophet af Roger D. LauniusBiography Award1988
Juanita Brooks, Mormon Woman Historian af Levi S. PetersonBiography Award1987
No Toil Nor Labor Fear: The Story of William Clayton (Biographies in Latter-Day Saint History) af James B. AllenBiography Award1986
Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West af Joseph C. PorterBiography Award1986
Phil Sheridan and His Army af Paul Andrew HuttonBiography Award1985
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism af Richard L. BushmanBiography Award1984
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith af Linda King NewellBiography Award1984
Brigham Young: American Moses af Leonard J. ArringtonBiography Award1983

Finalist 1

VærkKategoriÅr
The Apache Wars af Paul Andrew HuttonBiography Award2017

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