The Potomac Corral of Westerners International in Washington, DC

The Potomac Corral established the Jeff C. Dykes Memorial Award in 1990 to recognize notable contributions to Western affairs and to honor the memory of Jefferson Chenoweth Dykes, a prominent and figure in study and promotion the American West and a founding member of the Potomac Corral. The Potomac Corral presents this award annually to a person or persons determined by a committee appointed by the Sheriff to have made significant contributions to the understanding and promotion of Western affairs.

Recipients of the Potomac Corral's Jeff C. Dykes Memorial Award
2009	Michael J. Brodhead, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2008	Nancy Anderson, National Gallery of Art
2007	R. David Edmunds, University of Texas at Dallas
2006	Bradley Patterson, Brookings Institution
2005	Peter Iverson, University of Arizona
2004	John Porter Bloom, University of the Pacific
2003	Fred Nicklason, University of Maryland
2002	William Morgan, Morgan Angel & Associates
2001	Ralph Ehrenberg, Library of Congress
2000	Joseph Medicine Crow, Crow Indian Tribe
1999	Robert Kvasnicka, National Archives
1998	Francis Paul Prucha, Marquette University
1997	Robert Utley, National Park Service
1996	Herman Viola, National Museum of Natural History
1995	Frank Goodwyn, University of Maryland
1994	Herbert Hart, U.S. Marine Corps
1993	Wayne Rasmussen, U.S. Department of Agriculture
1992	Paul Scheips, U.S. Army Center of Military History
1991	John Ewers, National Museum of Natural History
1990	William Gardner Bell, U.S. Center for Military History

Guidelines for the Jeff C. Dykes Memorial Award are available for download in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Bill Morgan (Bill_Morgan@potomac-corral.org)is the chair of the Dykes Award committee.

Other Recent Awards by Corral Members:

The Potomac Corral won an award from Westerners International for its accomplishments in 2008. Corral member Mike Boothe won second place in the "Fred Olds Poetry Award" for outstanding contemporary cowboy poetry. His poem, "Ode to Four-Wheeler Wranglers," appeared in the 2008 issue of Corral Dust.
The Potomac Corral won three awards from Westerners International for its accomplishments in 2007. The Potomac Corral won the "Heads-Up" Award for its programs, membership, publications, activities, community contributions. Corral member Joseph Herring won the "Coke" Wood Award competition for the best published monograph or article dealing with Western American history. Joe Herring's article is entitled “Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845,” was published in the winter 2006/2007 issue of Kansas History. Corral member Francis Flavin won second place in the Danielson Award competition for the best presentation or program delivered to a corral or posse by a member of Westerners. Francis Flavin's presentation was entitled “Same Symbols, Different Stories: The Plains Indians and the History of American Westward Expansion.”
The Western Writers of America has announced the winners of its 2008 Spur Award contest. Among the winning authors are two Potomac Corral members: Robert M. Utley and Joseph B. Herring. Utley's Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers won first place in the "best Western nonfiction contemporary" category, and Herring's “Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845,” published in the winter 2006/2007 issue of Kansas History, won first prize for "best Western short nonfiction."