This is a list of the works of fiction which have won the Spur Award for Best Short Fiction: 1953 - Short Story: "Gun Job" by Thomas Thompson 1954 - Short Story: "Blood on the Sun" by Thomas Thompson 1955 - Short Story: "Bad Company" by S. Omar Barker 1956 - Short Story: "Lost Sister" by Dorothy M. Johnson 1957 - Short Story: "The Brushoff' by Peggy Simson Curry 1958 - Short Story: "Thief in Camp" by Bill Gulick 1959 - Short Story: "Grandfather Out of the Past" by Noel Loomis 1960 - Short Story: "The Shaming of Broken Horn" by Bill Gulick 1961 - Short Story: `A Town Named Hate" by John Prebble 1962 - Short Story: "Isley's Stranger" by Will Henry 1963 - Short Story: "Comanche Woman" by Fred Grove 1964 - Short Story: "Log Studio of C.M. Russell" by Lola Shelton 1965 - Short Material: "Tallest Indian in Toltepec" by Will Henry 1966 - Short Material: "Empty Saddles at Christmas" by S. Omar Barker 1967 - Short Material: "The Guns of William Longley" by Donald Hamilton 1968 - Short Material: "When the Caballos Came" by Fred Grove 1969 - Short Subject: "Westward to Blood and Glory" by Cliff Farrell 1970 - Short Subject: "In the Silence" by Peggy Simson Curry 1971 - Short Subject: "Shootout in Burke Canyon" by Earl Clark 1972 - Short Subject: "Call of the Cow Country?' by Harry F. Webb 1973 - Short Subject: "The Comancheros" by John Harrell 1974 - Short Subject: (tie) "The Other Nevadan" by Robert Laxalt and "Buried Money" by Eve Ball 1975 - Short Subject: "Apaches in the History of the Southwest" by Donald Worcester 1976 - Short Subject: "Jonathan Gilliam & The White Man's Burden" by C. L. Sonnichsen 1977 - Short Subject: "Where the Cowboys Hunkered Down" by John L. Sinclair 1978 - Short Subject: `A Season for Heroes" by Carla Kelly 1979 - Short Subject: "Jason Glendauer's Watch" by James Bellah 1980 - Short Subject: "One Man's Code" by Wayne Barton 1981 - Short Subject (Fiction): "Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter" by Carla Kelly 1982 - Short Subject (Fiction): "Horseman" by Oakley Hall 1983 - Short Subject (Fiction): "The Ten Sleep Mail" by William F. Bragg, Jr. 1984 - Short Subject (Fiction): "Sale of One Small Ranch" by Paul St. Pierre 1985 - Short Fiction: "The Way It Was Told to Me" by Bill Brett 1986