Denver Public Library

2022 

Honor Book List 

Caroline Bancroft History

Prize Competition  

The Western History and Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library annually holds a competition for the Caroline Bancroft History Prize.

The committee also compiled an Honor List 

of books from the competition 

My book, 

Historic Tales of Henry Cowell

 Redwoods State Park - 

Big Trees Grove

was added to Honor Book List

The competition is for books on Western American History, covering the area inclusive of the trans-Mississippi West from prehistoric times to the present. This includes all states west of the Mississippi River, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Canadian and Mexican borderlands. 

To be a competition nominee, books had to be published in 2021 and have footnotes or endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

The Caroline Bancroft History Prize committee, composed of Denver Public Library employees, considered nominees who made "a significant contribution to historical knowledge, that present thorough and original research, that bring a new perspective to some well-known question, and that are of high literary quality."

I am honored to have been a nominee for the Caroline Bancroft History competition and to be included on their 2022 Honor Book List. 

                                                         Deborah Osterberg