The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize has announced Wayne McCrory’s The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future (Harbour Publishing) as the winner of the 2024 award.

The $3,500 prize, given by UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society, is awarded annually to the best scholarly book on a British Columbia subject by a Canadian author.

The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin is the illustrated account of McCrory’s journey in the country of the Tŝilhqot’in people of southern B.C. and an examination of the central role local wild horses, known as ‘cayuse’ or ‘qiyus’, occupy in the lives and traditions of the Tŝilhqot’in.

The prize will be awarded at a reception in May.