Wyoming Woman: Nancy Curtis & High Plains Press Wins Award

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Congratulations to Glendo, Wyoming, book publishing company, High Plains Press, and owner Nancy Curtis, for winning two major book awards!

Actor Wes Studi presents the Lariat Award to High Plains Press Publisher Nancy Curtis.

The press was recognized in Albuquerque, on June 16, 2012, by Western Writers of America with the Lariat Award, which goes to a publishing industry professional for support of western books and authors. Publisher Nancy Curtis accepted the award from Wes Studi, who has starred in many movies including Geronimo in the motion picture Geronimo, Joe Leaphorn in the movie made from the Tony Hillerman book, and a role in Dances with Wolves.

The WWA website says: “Proving that neither location nor size affects good work, High Plains Press, which operates on a cattle ranch near Glendo, Wyoming, has won five Wrangler Awards from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for poetry, a Willa award and several Willa finalist awards from Women Writing the West, several finalist awards in the Western Writers of America Spur Awards, and finalists in the Ben Franklin Awards competitions. Publisher Nancy Curtis has also published several winners for book awards from the Wyoming Historical Society.”

This honor has only been bestowed six times. Previous awards have been presented to the University of Oklahoma Press, True West Magazine, Tom Doherty/Forge Books, Caxton Press, Dorchester Publishing/Leisure Books, and Luther Wilson University Press Director.

In April, Married into It, by Patricia Frolander, published by High Plains Press, won a Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The award, a bronze based on the painting the Night Herder, was presented to Curtis in a black-tie ceremony by two grandchildren of John Wayne.

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