Awards View South Dakota History  Volumes 41 and up  Volumes 31-40  Volumes 21-30  Volumes 11-20  Volumes 1-10  Cumulative Index 1970-2010 View History Notes View Awards 1983 Ray Allen Billington Prize In South Dakota History Vol. 12, No. 4 Winter 1982 "Indian Heirship Lands: The Lake Traverse Experience"   By: Michael L. Lawson.   1984 Ray Allen Billington Prize In South Dakota History Vol. 13, No. 4 Winter 1983 "The Literary Apprenticeship of Laura Ingalls Wilder"   By: William T. Anderson.   1990 Ray Allen Billington Prize In South Dakota History Vol. 19, No. 3 Fall 1989 "The Transformation of South Dakota Agriculture: The Effects of Mechanization, 1939-1964"   By: Gilbert C. Fite.   1996 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction In South Dakota History Vol. 26, No. 1 Spring 1996 "Letters from the Field: John Sylvanus Loud and the Pine Ridge Campaign of 1890-1891"   By: Fred Erisman. Patricia L. Erisman.   1999 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction In South Dakota History Vol. 28, No. 3 Fall 1998 "A South Dakota Rendezvous: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Races"   By: Carlton L. Bonilla.   2003 Michael P. Malone Award In South Dakota History Vol. 32, No. 2 Summer 2002 "Art Meets Politics: Peter Norbeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Sylvan Lake Hotel Commission"   By: Suzanne Barta Julin.   2008 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction In South Dakota History Vol. 38, No. 1 Spring 2008 "Owen Wister's Paladin of the Plains: The Virginian as a Cultural Hero"   By: David A. Smith.