Sally Denton has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Woodrow Wilson Public Scholar Fellowship, the Black Mountain/Kluge Fellowship, the Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer Award, 2 Western Heritage Awards, and has been inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. She has received the Investigative Reporters and Editors "Best Investigative Book," and her books have been named "Editors' Choice" and "Notable Book" by the New York Times. From Bluegrass Conspiracy to The Money and the Power, 9 signed, first edition Histories in total.

• The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
• The Bluegrass Conspiracy: And Inside Story of power, Greed, Drugs and Murder
• American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
• The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Wo Built the World
• Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West
• The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America
• The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis and the Rise of the American Right
• Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics and Love Shaped the Nineteenth-Century America
• The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas