Eight Kelton novels, Buffalo Wagons, The Day the Cowboys Quit, The Time It Never Rained, Eyes of the Hawk, Slaughter, The Far Canyon, Many a River and The Way of the Coyote, have won Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.
Hamilton's short story contribution, The Guns of William Longley, won the 1967 Western Writers of America Spur Award for best short material.
Hoffman won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for her novel The Valdez Horses (Doubleday, 1967).
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He began writing full-time in 1984, and has won many awards, including the International Reading Association Award and the Western Writers' Golden Spur award.