Badger Clark: Poetry Wrangler, an illustrated children’s book published by SDHS Press, won the 2025 Western Heritage Wrangler Award in the Outstanding Juvenile Book category! The award was presented to the book’s author, Nancy Bo Flood, at the Western Heritage Awards ceremony on April 11, 2026.
The Western Heritage Awards are presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum located in Oklahoma City to honor the best works from the previous year in Western music, film, television, and literature. This is the second SDHS Press publication to win a Wrangler Award in recent years. Bighorn Visions: The Photography of Jessamine Spear Johnson by Tempe Javitz was awarded the 2023 Wrangler for Outstanding Photography Book.
Badger Clark: Poetry Wrangler, written by Nancy Bo Flood and illustrated by Jeanne Bowman, tells the story of South Dakota’s first poet laureate, Badger Clark (1883–1957), and celebrates his enduring poetry. To order this book, go to this link.