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The Martin Kansas History Book Award was created in 2018 as a tribute to Gail Lee Martin, who was KAC State Archivist from 1995-2005. Gail Lee Martin joined Kansas Authors Club in 1992 and was a member of District 5. Martin enjoyed writing fiction, nonfiction, stories for children, journalism, history, and poetry. Martin’s work was published in numerous magazines. She also published two books: Clyde Owen Martin Family Memories of His Life and Times, and My Flint Hills Childhood, which was a winner of the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award in 2010. The funding for the Martin Kansas History Book Award comes from the Gail Lee Martin Memorial established in her name. This book award is open exclusively for Kansas history. 

Martin Kansas History Book Award
 
2022   Gravedigger's Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town, by Cheryl Unruh, Emporia, D2

2021   
True Tales of Kansas, by Roger L. Ringer, Medicine Lodge, D6

2020   Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable
                Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker
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                by Chuck Warner, Lawrence, D2

2019   Golden Rule Days, History and Recollections of 109
               Closed Kansas High Schools
, by James Kenyon, Cedar Falls, Iowa, D7

2018   A Cow for College and Other Stories of 1950s Farm Life, James Kenyon, (Graham County KS) Cedar Falls, Iowa, D7



Ferguson Kansas History Book Award (2001-2017)
Award Winners
 
2017   Kansas Baseball: 1858-1941, Mark Eberle

2016   The Last Wild Places of Kansas, George Frazier, Lawrence, D2

2015   no award given

2014   no award given

2013   Leave No Threshing Stone Unturned, Glen Ediger, Non-KAC member

2011   Holy Ground, Healing Water: Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake,     Kansas (Environmental History Series), Donald J. Blakeslee, Non-member,    Wichita

2010  My Flint Hills Childhood: Growing up in 1930s Kansas, by Gail Lee Martin, D5.

2009 Small Town Showdown, Eileen Umbehr, Alma. D4

2008 No award.                  

2007 By Thy Strengthening Grace: A Brief History of the First One Hundred Years of the Bahá´í Faith in Topeka, 1906-2006, Duane L. Hermann, Topeka, D1

2006 Gathering at the Golden Gate: Mobilizing for War in the Philippines, 1898, Stephen D. Coats, Ph.D., non-member

2005 The Lady is a Veterinarian, Lesley Ann Gentry, Beloit, D6

2004 The Secret Danites: Kansas’ First Jayhawkers, Tom Mildfelt, Richmond, non-member

2003 No award granted.

2002 Golden Age, Dust Bowl, Great Depression, Ellen May Stanley, Dighton, D7
 
2001 Between These Walls, Billy Q. McCray, Wichita, D5
  

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