This is a list of the works of fiction which have won the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West:
1953 - Best Historical Novel: "The Wheel and the Hearth" by Lucia Moore
1954 - Best Historical Novel: "Journey by the River" by John Prescott
1955 - No Award given
1956 - Best Historical Novel: "Generations of Men" by John Clinton Hunt
1957 - Best Historical Novel: "Silver Mountain" by Dan Cushman
1958 - Best Historical Novel: "The Fancher Train" by Amelia Bean
1959 - Best Historical Novel: "The Buffalo Soldier" by John Prebble
1960 - Best Historical Novel: "From Where the Sun Now Stands" by Will Henry
1961 - Best Historical Novel: "The Winter War" by William Wister Haines
1962 - Best Historical Novel: "Moontrap" by Don Berry
1963 - Best Historical Novel: "Gates of the Mountains" by Will Henry (2)
1964 - Best Historical Novel: "Indian Fighter" by F.F. Halloran
1965 - Best Historical Novel: (tied) "Gold in California" by Todhunter Ballard & "Mountain Man" by Vardis Fisher
1966 - Best Historical Novel: "Hellfire Jackson" by Garland Roark & Charles Thomas
1967 - Best Historical Novel: "The Wolf is My Brother by Chad Oliver
1968 - Best Historical Novel: "The Red Sabbath" by Lewis B. Patten
1969 - Best Historical Novel: "The White Man's Road" by Benjamin Capps
1970-71 No Award given
1972 - Best Historical Novel: "Chiricahua" by Will Henry (3)
1973-75 No Award given
1976 - Best Historical Novel: "The Kincaids" by Matt Braun
1977 - Best Historical Novel: "Swimming Man Burning" by Terrence Kilpatrick
1978-80 No Award given
1981 - Best Historical Novel: "Aces and Eights" by Loren D. Estleman
1982 - Best Historical Novel: Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson
1983 - Best Historical Novel: "Sam Bass" by Bryan Woolley
1984 - Best Historical Novel: "Gone the Dreams and Dancing" by Douglas C. Jones
1985 - Best Historical Novel: "The Snowblind Moon" by John Byrne Cooke
1986 - Best Historical Novel: "Roman" by Douglas C. Jones (2)
1987 - Best Historical Novel: "Wanderer Springs" by Robert Flynn
1988 - Best Novel of The West: "The Homesman" by Glendon Swarthout
1989 - Best Novel of The West: "Panther In The Sky" by James Alexander Thom
1990 - Best Novel of The West: "Home Mountain" by Jeanne Williams
1991 - Best Novel of The West: "The Medicine Horn" by Jory Sherman
1992 - Best Novel of The West: "Slaughter" by Elmer Kelton
1993 - Best Novel of The West: "Empire of Bones" by Jeff Long
1994 - Best Novel of The West: "The Far Canyon" by Elmer Kelton (2)
1995 - Best Novel of The West: "Stone Song: A Novel of The Life of Crazy Horse" by Win Blevins
1996 - Best Novel of The West: "Sierra" by Richard S. Wheeler
1997: W.W.A. changed the time-frame from 'year published' to 'year award presented'
1998 - Best Novel of The West: "Comanche Moon" by Larry McMurtry
1999 - Best Novel of The West: "The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton" by Jane Smiley
2000 - Best Novel of The West: "Prophet Annie" by Ellen Recknor
2001 - Best Novel of The West: "The Gates of The Alamo" by Stephen Harrigan
2002 - Best Novel of The West: "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint" by Brady Udall
2003 - Best Novel of The West: "Perma Red" by Debra Magpie Earling
2004 - Best Novel of The West: "So Wild A Dream" by Win Blevins (2)
2005 - Best Novel of The West: "People of The Raven" by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
2006 - Best Novel of The West: "High Country: A Novel" by Willard Wyman (which also won for Best First Novel)
2007 - Best Western Long Novel: "The Night Journal" by Elizabeth Crook
2008 - Best Western Long Novel: "The God of Animals" By Aryn Kyle
2009 - Best Western Long Novel: "Shavetail" by Thomas Cobb
2010 - Best Western Long Novel: "Echoes of Glory" by Robert Flynn (2)
only five authors have won it on more than one occasion: Will Henry (3): 1960, 1963, 1972; (2) each for: Win Blevins 1995, 2004; Robert Flynn 1987, 2010; Douglas C. Jones 1984, 1986; Elmer Kelton 1992, 1994