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High Plains Book Award Finalists - 2012
Art & Photography
Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation
Sara Wiles
University of Oklahoma Press
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Fra Dana: American Impressionist in the Rockies
Valerie Hedquist & Sue Hart
Montana Museum of Art & Culture
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Hand Raised:  The Barns of Montana
Chere Jiusto & Christine W. Brown
Montana Historical Society Press
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Relatives With Roots: A Story About Metis Women's Connection to the Land
Leah Marie Dorion
Gabriel Dumont Institute
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Arapaho Journeys Fra Dana Hand Raised Relatives with roots

Fiction
Kings of Colorado
David E. Hilton
Simon & Schuster
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Liberty Lanes
Robin Troy
University of Nevada Press
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The Ringer
Jenny Shank
The Permanent Press
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Kings of Colorado Liberty Lanes The Ringer

First Book
American Masculine
Shann Ray
Graywolf Press
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 The Big Sky, By and By
Ed Kemmick
Missouri Breaks Press
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Kings of Colorado
David E. Hilton
Simon & Schuster
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Rim Haven
Lynne Montague
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 American Masculine The Big Sky, By and By   Kings of Colorado  Rim Haven

Nonfiction
The Boy
Betty Jane Hegerat
Oolichan Books
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Hand Raised:  The Barns of Montana
Chere Jiusto & Christine W. Brown
Montana Historical Society Press
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 Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories
David Mogen
University of Nebraska Press
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 The Boy Hand Raised   Honyocker Dreams


Poetry
Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet
Twyla M. Hansen & Linda M. Hasselstrom
The Backwaters Press
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 Killing the Murnion Dogs
Joe Wilkins
Black Lawrence Press
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Songs of Unreason
Jim Harrison
Copper Canyon Press
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dirt songs  killing the murnion dogs   songs of unreason


Short Stories
American Masculine
Shann Ray
Graywolf Press
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Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure
Craig Lancaster
Missouri Breaks Press
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 American Masculine  Quantum physics and the art of departure


Woman Writer
Married Into It
Patricia Frolander
High Plains Press
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 Racing Home
Adele Dueck
Coteau Books
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Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana's Frontier
Lael Morgan
Chicago Review Press 
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Married Into It   Racing Home  Wanton West