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Home of the Annual Spur Awards
Founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and bestow Spur Awards for distinguished writing in the Western field. WWA today has more than 600 members worldwide.
Members include:
Screenwriters
Kirt Ellis (JOHN ADAMS) and
Miles Swarthout (THE SHOOTIST)
Best-selling novelists
C. J. Box (FORCE OF NATURE), Bill Culick (BEND OF THE SNAKEE)
Lucia St. Clair Robson (RIDE THE WIND)
Historians
Robert J. Conley (THE CHEROKEE NATION: A HISTORY)
Paul Andrew Hutton (THE CUSTER READER)
Candy Moulton (CHIEF JOSEPH: GUARDIAN OF THE PEOPLE)
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