 Ferril was selected as the author of the cycle of verse that captions the murals that decorate the first floor rotunda of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver (painted 1938-1940).Ferril was awarded the Oscar Blumenthal Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Frost Poetry Award, and the Ridgely Torrence Memorial Award.A selection of his works was republished as "Thomas Hornsby Ferril and the American West" (1996).