Slatta Select Honors

Cowboys of the Americas book cover
  1. 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
  2. 2008 Cowboy Culture Award for Writing, National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration
  3. 2000 Lonnie and Carol Poole Award for Excellence in Teaching, CHASS, NCSU in part for developing NC State's first online history course in 1998.
  4. 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century
  5. 1999 Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century
  6. 1997 Who's Who in the World, 14th ed.
  7. 1996 Who's Who in American Education, 5th ed.
  8. 1995 American Library Association "Outstanding Reference Source;" awarded to The Cowboy Encyclopedia
  9. 1994 International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 13th ed.
  10. " Library Journal "Best Reference Source" awarded to The Cowboy Encyclopedia
  11. 1992 Men of Achievement
  12. 1991 Western Heritage Award for Nonfiction Literature, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, awarded to Cowboys of the Americas
  13. 1984 Hubert Herring Book Prize, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, awarded to Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier
  14. 1984-85 Tinker Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
  15. 1977-78 Social Science Research Council--International Doctoral Research Fellowship
  16. 1977-78 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Program, US Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare

Books Published

  1. Latin America: An Interactive History Lab. Great River Learning , 2016. ISBN #: 978-1-68075-145-1. Online electronic textbook and learning environment.
  2. National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration. American Cowboy Culture Association, 2010.
  3. Cowboy: The Illustrated History. Penn/Sterling, 2006, 2008.
  4. Símon Bolívar's Quest for Glory. Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2003.
  5. The Mythical West. ABC-CLIO, 2001.
  6. Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1997, 2001.
  7. The Cowboy Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 1994; Norton, 1996.
  8. Cowboys of the Americas. Yale University Press, 1990, 1994.
  9. Bandidos: The Varieties of Latin American Banditry. Greenwood Press, 1987. Volume editor, contributor.
  10. . Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1983, 1992.
    [More than one publication date indicates the book appeared in both hardback and paperback editions.]