Winners of the Mrs. Percy Jones Award for Best Article in the Yearbook

• 2008-  Kregg Fehr, "Harbingers of Change:  Wind ?Turbines and the Dawning of a New Age in Texas Energy History
• 2007-  Allan J. Kuethe and José Manuel Serrano Álvarez, The San Sabá Presidio and Spain's Frontier Policy in North America
• 2006-  Glen Ely
• 2005-  Sandy Hoover, Searching for Meaning in the Llano Estacado
• 2004-  Paul Carlson
• 2003-  Kevin Sweeney
• 2002-  Mike Cox
• 2001-  Lou Rodenberger
• 2000-  Lawrence Clayton
• 1999-  Sean J. Flynn
• 1998-  Jack Becker
• 1997-  Paul Wright
• 1996-  Laura Anne Wimberley
• 1995-  Leo S. Bielinski
• 1994-  Donald W. Whisenhunt
• 1993-  J. B. Honea
• 1992-  Roger Tuller
• 1991-  Paul H. Carlson
• 1990-  Joseph W. McKnight
• 1989-  Amoldo De Leon
• 1988-  J'Nell Pate
• 1987-  Richard Mason
• 1986-  Delmar Hayter
• 1985-  Benton R. White
• 1984-  Steven F. Mehls
• 1983-  Sandra L. Myres
• 1982-  Paul H. Carlson
• 1981-  Gary S. Elbow and Simone Gordon
• 1980-  Rupert N. Richardson
• 1979-  Ralph Smith
• 1978-  Paul H. Carlson
• 1977-  H. Allen Anderson
• 1976-  Ralph Smith
• 1975-  David J. Murrah
• 1974-  Frank B. Counselman
• 1973-  Ralph Smith and Elton Green
• 1972-  Charles Marler

R. C. Crane Award for Best Creative or Fiction Work on West Texas

• 2005-  Patrick Dearen, When the Sky Rained Dust
• 2002-  Preston Lewis, Blanca is My Name
• 2001-  Preston Lewis, They Call Me Old Blue
• 2000-  Walt McDonald and Janet Neugebauer, Whatever the Wind Delivers

Rupert N. Richardson Award for the Best Book on West Texas

• 2008-  Bill Neal, Abilene, for "From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw Wes." published by Texas Tech Press
• 2007-  Bill Neal, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier
• 2006-  Jim Matthews, Fort Concho:  A History and a Guide
• 2005-  Tom Alexander, Rattlesnake Bomber Base
• 2004-  Marsha Pfluger, Across Time and Territory: A Walk Through the National Ranching Heritage Center
• 2002-  Jo Ella Powell Exley, Frontier Blood: the Saga of the Parker Family
• 2001-  Jim Pfluger and Bob Moorehouse, Pitchfork Country: the Photography of Bob Moorehouse
• 2000-  Paul H. Carlson, ed., The Cowboy Way: an Exploration of History and Culture
• 1999-  Frederick W. Rathjen, Texas Panhandle Frontier (2nd edition)
• 1998-  John Miller Morris, Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
• 1997-  Paul H. Carlson, Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush
• 1996-  Ty Cashion, A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fort Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887

West Texas Historical Association Outstanding Student Essay Award

• 2008-  Ruth Ann Shirley, Abilene, for "Prisoner’s Among Prisoner’s:  Conflicts at Camp Barkeley, Texas
• 2007-  Tracy Stewart, Founding Mothers of Deaf Smith County
• 2006-  John McCullough, Texas Tech University
• 2005-  Nicholas Pruitt, Wayland Baptist University
• 2004-  Ashley Armes
• 2003-  David Holt
• 2002-  Alexander Soto Cano, Angelo State University
• 2001-  Dana Magill, Texas Tech University
• 2000-  Scott Sosebee, Texas Tech University
• 1999-  Gary Lindsey, Texas Tech University
• 1998-  Ed Tinney, Angelo State University
• 1997-  no award given
• 1996-  Carolyn Griffith, Hardin-Simmons University
• 1995-  Christie R. Wyse, Texas Tech University

Ernest Wallace Grant- Graduate Research on West Texas History

• 2005-  Leland Turner

William Curry Holden Research Award

• 2008-  Leland Turner
• 2005-  Gene Preuss
• 2003-  Kevin Sweeney of Wayland Baptist University received the $1,000 grant to complete research on drought conditions in the 19^th Century South Plains.