John Echohawk and Billy Frank, Jr.

If You Go Date: November 2, 2006 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC 2006 Wallace Stegner Award Recipients Native American activists John Echohawk and Billy Frank, Jr., were honored by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center of the American West on Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at...

Ivan Doig

If You Go Date: April 27, 2007 Time: 7:00 PM 2007 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center was proud to present internationally-acclaimed author Ivan Doig with the 2007 Wallace Stegner Award. Mr. Doig spent the evening in conversation with Center of the American West founders Patty Limerick and Charles Wilkinson...

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

If You Go Date: April 17, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Macky Auditorium 2008 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center of the American West, in conjunction with the University of Colorado Law School, was proud to present one of the most influential, and interesting, Westerners of our time, Justice Sandra...

Tom McGuane

If You Go Date: February 26, 2009 2009 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center of the American West presented Western author Tom McGuane with the prestigious 2009 Wallace Stegner Award in an engaging evening. Each year, the Center celebrates the life and achievements of an individual that has made a...

Ted Turner

If You Go Date: September 28, 2010 Time: 9:00 AM Where: Wittemyer Courtoom, Wolf Law School 2010 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient Patty Limerick interviewed the 2010 Stegner Award recipient, Ted Turner, for a morning of engaging discussion. Each year, the Center celebrates the life and achievements of an individual who...

John McPhee

If You Go Date: October 27, 2011 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Old Main 2011 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center of the American West is proud to award John McPhee its highest honor, the Stegner Award, on October 27th at 7:00 in the evening in Old Main Chapel on the...

Kent Haruf

If You Go Date: April 25, 2012 Time: 7:00 PM Where: Wittemyer Courtoom, Wolf Law School 2012 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient The Center of the American West is proud to present Kent Haruf with its highest honor, the Stegner Award, on April 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom...

Elliott West

If You Go Date: April 25, 2013 Time: 6:30 PM Where: Hale 270 2013 Wallace Stegner Recipient The Center of the American West is proud to announce the 2013 Wallace Stegner Award Winner: Western American Historian and Author, Elliott West. “Elliott West is the best historian of the American West...

Rocky Mountain Rescue

If You Go Date: April 20, 2015 Time: 6:30PM Where: Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 2015 Wallace Stegner Recipient Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art,...

photo of Dave Ward standing in front of sheriff's car

Special Stegner Award & Humor Initiative event with Sheriff Dave Ward

If You Go Date: October 3, 2019 Time: 6:30PM Where: Old Main Chapel Last month, the Center of the American West was proud to present a special Stegner Award & Humor Initiative event honoring Sheriff Dave Ward . Sheriff Ward did everything imaginable to hold his community together during the...

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