Article: 2009 Spur Awards Honor Best Westerns

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating picked up his second Spur Award from Western Writers of America in the annual competition that honors excellence in literature of the American West.

Keating's THE TRIAL OF STANDING BEAR, published by the Oklahoma Heritage Association, won for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. Keating, who served as Oklahoma governor from 1995 to 2005, also won a Spur in 2003 for WILL ROGERS: AN AMERICAN LEGEND.

Craig Johnson's ANOTHER MAN'S MOCCASINS, published by Viking/ Penguin Press, won the ...

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