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

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.

Other Recent Awards by Corral Members:

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."