# Spur Awards

  * #### The Coming

By Osborne, David 

The Coming is an epic novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. The Nez Perce help the explorers build canoes and navigate the rapids of the Columbia, then spend two months hosting them the following spring before leading them back across the snowbound mountains. Daytime Smoke is born not long after, and the tribe of his youth continues a deep friendship with white Americans, from fur trappers to missionaries, even aiding the United States government in wars with neighboring tribes. But when gold is discovered on Nez Perce land in 1860, it sets an inevitable tragedy in motion.

    * Bloomsbury 
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9781632863850
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Print book

  * #### Double Wide

By Banks, Leo W. 

"Banks' strong noir debut will remind many of early Joe Lansdale. Smart dialogue helps propel the tight plot." Publishers WeeklyAfter fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers.MORE PRAISE FOR "DOUBLE WIDE":"'Double Wide' is a rollicking page-turner. As twisted and bumpy as a desert road at night.

    * Publisher: n/a 
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9780997832341
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Paperback

  * #### Hell Hath No Fury

By West, Charles G 

In the first of a trailblazing new series, acclaimed western author Charles G. West introduces the legend of a man called Hawk . . . To make a new life, James Pratt and his young bride join a westward wagontrain bound for the Rocky Mountains. They get as far as Helena when their unscrupulous wagon master deserts them, leaving them as good as dead in a godforsaken, bloodscorched land. Even still, the other settlers agree to set stakes where they are, but James and his bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep into Sioux territory. They never come out the other side. James' brother Monroe enlists the legendary Indian scout John Hawk to find them. A hardened veteran of the range, Hawk is living off the land in a little cabin on the Boulder River when Monroe comes begging for his help.

    * Pinnacle 
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9780786042005
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Mass Market Paperback

  * #### The Promise Bride

By Welborn, Gina 

In a booming frontier town, a heavenly match may be in store for mail-order brides seeking a fresh start . . . women of strength and spirit who embrace the challenges of life and love in the wild Montana Territory. Determined to save her father and siblings from a crumbling Chicago tenement, Emilia Stanek becomes the long-distance bride of a Montana rancher. But when she arrives in Helena, a rugged lawman shatters her plans with the news that her husband is dead - and deeply in debt. County sheriff Mac McCall can't afford to be distracted by the pretty young widow, not with scandalous secrets emerging as he investigates his friend's suspicious death. Mac's gruff order that she leave town at once only spurs Emilia's resolve to take ownership of her late husband's ranch and face his debtors.

    * Zebra 
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9781420143973
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Mass Market Paperback

  * #### Silver City

By Guinn, Jeff 

Cash McLendon faces stone-cold enforcer Killer Boots in an Old West showdown, in _New York Times_ bestselling author Jeff Guinn's riveting follow-up to _Buffalo Trail_ , winner of the TCU Texas Book Award.  
  
Cash McLendon, reluctant hero of the epic Indian battle at Adobe Walls, has journeyed to Mountain View in the Arizona Territory with one goal: to convince Gabrielle Tirrito that he's a changed man and win her back from schoolteacher Joe Saint. As they're about to depart by stage for their new life in San Francisco, Gabrielle is kidnapped by enforcer Killer Boots, who is working on orders from crooked St. Louis businessman Rupert Douglass. Cash, once married to Douglass's troubled daughter, fled the city when she died of accidental overdose - and Douglass vowed he'd track Cash down and make him pay.  
Now McLendon, accompanied by Joe Saint and Major Mulkins, hits the trail in pursuit of Gabrielle and Killer Boots, hoping to make a trade before it's too late.

    * Putnam 
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9780399165436
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Print book

  * #### Frank Little and the IWW

By Botkin, Jane Little 

Franklin Henry Little (1878-1917) , an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) , fought in some of the early twentieth century's most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle's fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare. Beginning with Little's childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West and Midwest to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known) , making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices.

    * University of Oklahoma Press 
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9780806155005
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Hardcover

  * #### A Land Apart

By Burke, Flannery 

A Land Apart is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest - it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key players and primary events marking the Southwest in the twentieth century. Historian Flannery Burke emphasizes how indigenous, Hispanic, and other non-white people negotiated their rightful place in the Southwest. Readers visit the region's top tourist attractions and find out how they got there, listen to the debates of Native people as they sought to establish independence for themselves in the modern United States, and ponder the significance of the U.S.-Mexico border in a place that used to be Mexico. Burke emphasizes policy over politicians, communities over individuals, and stories over simple narratives.Burke argues that the Southwest's reputation as a region on the margins of the nation has caused many of its problems in the twentieth century.

    * University of Arizona Press 
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9780816528417
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Paperback

  * #### Killers of the Flower Moon

By Grann, David 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - AMAZON EDITORS' PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2017   
  
"Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." - Dave Eggers, _New York Times Book Review  
  
Shelf Awareness's Best Book of 2017  
  
Named a best book of the year by _Wall Street Journal_ , _GQ_ , _Time_ , _Newsday_ , _Entertainment Weekly_ , NPR's Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "On Point", _Vogue.com_ , _Smithsonian_ , _Cosmopolitan_ , _Seattle Times_ , _Bloomberg_ , _Library Journal_ , _Paste_ , _Book Browse_   
  
_From _New Yorker_ staff writer David Grann, #1 _New York Times_ best-selling author of _The Lost City of Z,_ a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history  
  
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.  
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.   
In this last remnant of the Wild West - where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the "Phantom Terror," roamed - many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.   
In _Killers of the Flower Moon,_ David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. _Killers of the Flower Moon_ is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating.

    * Doubleday 
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9780385534246
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Hardcover

  * #### Stranded

By Mayo, Matthew P 

PERFECT FOR FANS OF GARY PAULSEN'S SURVIVAL STORIES AND READERS WHO ENJOYED THE REVENANT BY MICHAEL PUNKEIn autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone. Facing certain death, and with blizzards, frostbite, and gnawing hunger her only companions, she endures repeated attacks by grizzly bears, wolves, and mountain lions. Janette rises to each challenge, relying on herself more than she knew possible. Her only comfort comes in writing in her diary, where she shares her fears, her travails, and her dwindling hopes.

    * Five Star Publishing 
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9781432834043
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Hardcover

  * #### Fergus and the Greener Grass

By Abernethy, Jean 

"Everyone loves Fergus!" say reviewers, and now the opinionated cartoon horse and bona fide social media star is back in an all new comic adventure. In his third book, Fergus catches a glimpse of what could be, and leaving his life of comfort behind, sets off on a hilarious journey. His exploits lead him over, under, and through all manner of obstacles as he strives to reach the bigger, better prize that beckons, always just a little farther away ... and on the other side. Featuring the talented Jean Abernethy's hysterical illustrations and scenes replete with supporting characters as amusing as their endearingly awkward hero, Fergus and the Greener Grass promises to entertain any reader with big dreams and an insatiable appetite for life's little surprises -- whether age 5 or 95!.

    * Trafalgar Square Books 
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9781570768453
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Hardcover