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HONORS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

2006 2006 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Documentary for Mountain Massacre (History Channel)
2005 2005 Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, for "'It was but a small affair': The Battle of the Alamo, Wild West (February 2004) as the "Outstanding Magazine Article of 2004"
2002-2004  President, Western Writers of America
2004 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Documentary for Carson and Cody: The Hunter Heroes (History Channel, 2003).
2003 Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for Best Documentary for Daniel Boone and the Westward Movement (National Park Service, 2002)
2002 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Documentary for Boone and Crockett: The Hunter Heroes (History Channel, 2001)
2000 Vice-President, Western Writers of America
2000 Western Writers of America Stirrup Award for "Dee Brown: A Life With Books," Roundup Magazine (October 1999)
1999  Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, for "T.R. Takes Charge," as the "Outstanding Magazine Article of 1998"
1998 Western Writers of America, President's Award
1996 Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, for "Showdown at the Hollywood Corral," as the "Outstanding Magazine Article of 1995"
1992 John M. Carroll Literary Award, Little Big Horn Associates, for The Custer Reader
1991 Vivian A. Paladin Award, Montana Historical Society, for "Correct in Every Detail," as the best essay to appear in Montana The Magazine of Western History in 1991
1987 Ray Allen Billington Award (Organization of American Historians), for Phil Sheridan and His Army
1986 Evans Biography Award, for Phil Sheridan and His Army
1986 Western Writers of American Spur Award for Best Non-fiction, for Phil Sheridan and His Army

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