Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research

The 2013 Kate Broocks Bates Award For Historical Research

$3,000

The Bates Award is given annually for a significant piece of historical research dealing with any phase of Texas history prior to 1900. More recent history may be included if it is relevant, although preference will be given to subjects dating from the period of the Republic or from the pre-Republic years. Submissions must be of book length and must have been published within the two previous calendar years of the award. The winning author will receive a certificate and $3,000 at the Association's annual meeting in March 2014. Judges may withhold the award at their discretion.

Publishers should submit an entry form and four (4) copies of each entry published and copyrighted in 2012 or 2013 to the TSHA office by October 11, 2013. Books published after October 11,  but copyrighted during the calendar year will be accepted until December 15.

Kate Broocks Bates Award
Texas State Historical Association
1155 Union Circle #311580
Denton, TX 76203-5017

The Kate Broocks Bates Award was established in 1976 in the name of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas by her children, Kate Harding Bates Parker and C. Elisabeth Bates Nisbet. The award honors Mrs. Bates, a dedicated member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas who was committed to the study of Texas history.

Past Recipients

2012 Richard B. McCaslin Fighting Stock: John S. "Rip" Ford
2011 No Award
2010 Thomas A. Britten The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightning
2009 Kyle Wilkison Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914
2008 Pekka Hämäläinen The Comanche Empire
2007 Donald E. Reynolds Texas Terror
2006 Stephen A. Townsend The Yankee Invasion of Texas
2005 Elliott Young Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
2004 Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History
2003 Jack Jackson and John Wheat Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report, and Role in the 1836 Campaign
2002 Robert Maberry Jr. Texas Flags
2001 Robert S. Weddle The Wreck of the Belle, the Ruin of La Salle
2000 Gregg Cantrell Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas
1999 Jack Jackson Shooting the Sun: Cartographic Results of Military Activities in Texas, 1689-1892
1998 William C. Foster, ed. The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687
1997 John Miller Morris El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
1996 Jack Jackson Flags Along the Coast
1995 Stephen L. Hardin Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution
1994 Andrés Tijerina Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836
1993 Donald E. Chipman Spanish Texas
1992 Paul D. Lack The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836
1991 Cynthia Brandimarte Inside Texas: Culture, Identity, and Houses, 1878-1920
1990 Paula Mitchell Marks Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick
1989 Andreas V. Reichstein Rise of the Lone Star: The Making of Texas
1988 Robert Wooster Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers: Garrison Life on the Texas Frontier
1987 Jack Jackson Los Mesteños: Spanish Ranching in Texas, 1721-1821
1986 Dale Lasater Falfurrias: Ed C. Lasater and the Development of South Texas