2017 PEACEMAKER AWARD WINNERS
(For Westerns Published in 2016)
BEST FIRST NOVEL:
ECHOES OF MASSACRE
CANYON by Ben Goheen aka Ben Tyler (Five Star Publishing)
Finalist:
Silence Rides Alone by Charles Millsted (Sundown Press)
The River of Cattle by Alice V. Brock (Pen-L Publishing)
The Silver Baron’s Wife by Danna Baier Stein (Serving House
Books)
The Wanted Lawman by A.C. Smith (Gray Ghost Publishing)
BEST NOVEL:
FAR WEST: THE DIARY
OF ELEANOR HIGGINS by Linell Jeppsen (Wolfpack Publishing)
Finalist:
Dead Man’s Boot by Patrick Dearen (Five Star Publishing)
Gun Devils of the Rio Grande by James Reasoner (Rough Edges
Press)
Killing Blood by Robert D. McKee (Five Star Publishing)
BEST WESTERN YA/CHILDREN FICTION:
THE RIVER OF CATTLE by
Alice V. Brock (Pen-L Publishing)
Finalist:
Calamity Jane: How the West Began by Bryan Ney (Dragon Tree
Books)
Good Water by John Nesbitt (Five Star Publishing)
Grandpa and the Kid by Cliff Hudgins (Wolfpack Publishing)
Lone Star Ranger 7: A Ranger Redeemed by James J. Griffin
(Painted Pony Books)
BEST SHORT FICTION:
Finalist:
Jake Silvershorn's Revenge - Vol. 10 Final Showdown, by Big
Jim Williams (High Noon Press)
Odell's Bones by Troy Smith (Cane Hollow Press)
Widelooping a Christmas Cowboy by Livia J. Washburn (A
Cowboy under the Mistletoe, Prairie Rose Publications)
Western Fictioneers would like to thank Awards Chair Kathleen
Rice Adams, and the judges for the excellent job they did and the long
hours they devoted to the task of endless reading.
