2006 Winner: A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians: Benedicte Wrensted by Joanna Cohan Scherer

Honorable Mention: Lewis & Clark and Me by Spence Campbell

2005 Winner: The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in the America's Richest Silver Mine by Gregg Olsen, Crown Publishers

Honorable Mentions: Governing Idaho: Politics, People and Power by James B. Weatherby and Randy Stapilus and Salmon River Country by Stephen Steubner and Mark Lisk

2004 Winner: The Cyanide Canary by Joseph Hilldorfer and Robert Dugoni, Free Press

2003 Winner: Traplines: coming home to Sawtooth Valley by John Rember, Pantheon Books

Honorable Mention: Polly Bemis, a Chinese American pioneer by Priscilla Wegars, Backeddy Books

2002 Winner: The Secrets of the Magic Valley and Hagerman's Remarkable Horse, edited by Todd Shallat, Black Canyon Communications

Honorable Mention: On All Sides Nowhere: Building a Rural Life in Idaho, by William Gruber, Houghton Mifflin Company.

Special Recognition for His Contribution to the Literature of Idaho: Ford Swetnam

2001 Winner: Standing up to the Rock, T. Louise Freeman-Toole (University of Nebraska Press)

2000 Winner: Out of the Ruins, William Johnson (Confluence Press)
Honorable Mention: Home Mountains : Reflections from a Western Middle Age, Susan Hendricks Swetnam (Washington State University Press)

1999 Winner: Irrigated Eden: the Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West, Mark Fiege (University of Washington Press)

1998 Winner: One Winter in the Wilderness, Pat Cary Peek (University of Idaho Press)

1997 Winner: Big Trouble: a Murder, J. Anthony Lukas (Simon & Schuster)

1996 Winner: Nez Perce Women in Transition, 1877-1990, Caroline James (University of Idaho Press)
Honorable Mentions: In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, Kim Barnes (Doubleday); Roadside History of Idaho, Betsy B. Derig (Mountain Press Pub. Co.)

1995 Winner: River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake, Keith C. Petersen (Confluence Press)
Honorable Mention: Smokechaser, Warren Yahr (University of Idaho Press)

1994 Winner: Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America, Jack Nisbet; David Thompson (Sasquatch Books)
Honorable Mentions: Come, Blackrobe : De Smet and the Indian tragedy, John J. Killoren (University of Oklahoma Press); Snake: the Plain and it's People, Todd A Shallat; E B Bentley (Boise State University)

1993 Winner: A Flood Cannot Happen Here: the Story of Lower Goose Creek Reservoir, Oakley Idaho, 1984, Kathleen Hedberg (Magic Valley Publishers)
Honorable Mentions: Backtracking: Ancient Art of Southern Idaho, Max G Pavesic; William Studebaker; Catherine S Fowler (Idaho Museum of Natural History); Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest, Carlos Schwantes (University of Washington Press)

1992 Winner: No awards given

1991 Winner: Building Idaho: an Architectural History, Jennifer Eastman Attebery (University of Idaho Press)

1990 Winner: Conversations: a Companion Book to Idaho Public Television's "Proceeding on through a Beautiful Country, a History of Idaho", Susan M. Stacy (Idaho Educational Public Broadcasting Foundation)

1989 Winner: Tiger on the Road: the Life of Vardis Fisher, Tim Woodward (Caxton Printers)

1988 Winner: Paradox Politics: People and Power in Idaho, Randy Stapilus (Ridenbaugh Press)

1987 Winner: This Crested Hill: an Illustrated History of the University of Idaho, Keith C. Petersen (University of Idaho Press)

1986 Winner: The Literature of Idaho: an Anthology, selected and edited by James H. Maguire (Hemingway Western Studies, Boise State University)

1985 Winner: Idaho Folklife: Homesteads to Headstones, Louie W Attebery; Brian Attebery (University of Utah Press ; Idaho State Historical Society)

1984 Winner: Mining Town: the Photographic Record of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d'Alenes, Patricia Hart and Ivar Nelson (University of Washington Press ; Idaho State Historical Society)