{{Short description|American historian (born 1962)}} {{Infobox person | name = Louis S. Warren | image = Louis S. Warren, 2018.png | caption = Warren in 2018 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|12|8|mf=y}} | birth_place = Pocatello, Idaho | known_for = US Western and Environmental History | alma_mater = Columbia University (BA)<br>Yale University (PhD) | employer = University of California, Davis | occupation = Historian | website = [http://louiswarren.com louiswarren.com] }}
'''Louis S. Warren''' (born December 8, 1962) is an American historian and a W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis,<ref name='ucdavis'> {{cite web |url=http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=1646 |title=Seminar Participants: "California Convergences: People, Places, Products" (Winter 2010) |publisher=UC Davis Humanities Institute |year=2010 |accessdate=23 July 2011 }}</ref> where he teaches environmental history, the history of the American West, and U.S. history.<ref name='ucdavis2'>{{cite web |url=http://history.ucdavis.edu/professor/louis_warren |title=Louis Warren |publisher=Department of History, UC Davis |accessdate=24 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220071150/http://history.ucdavis.edu/professor/louis_warren |archive-date=20 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life and education== Warren was born in Pocatello, Idaho. He is the third child of Claude and Elizabeth Warren.<ref name="schneider"> {{cite book | last1=Winslow |first1=Diane Lynne | last2=Wedding | first2=Jeffrey R. | last3=Schneider | first3=Joan S. | chapter=Claude Nelson Warren: An introduction to his life and times | pages=1–7 | editor1-last = Schneider | editor1-first = Joan S. | editor2-first = Robert M | editor2-last = Yohe II | editor3-first = Jill K | editor3-last = Gardner | title = Archaeological Passages: a volume in honor of Claude Nelson Warren | location = Hemet, California | publisher = Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology, Publications in Archaeology | year= 2000 | series= Number 1 | isbn = 0-9713558-0-0 }} </ref>
Warren attended a two-room schoolhouse in the ghost town of Goodsprings, Nevada, and attended Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada.<ref name='louiswarren'> {{cite web |title=Bio |publisher=Louis S. Warren |url=http://louiswarren.com/ |accessdate=24 July 2011 }}</ref> He was a British American Education Foundation Scholar at Cranleigh School, Surrey, UK, in 1980 – 81, and did his undergraduate work in history at Columbia University in New York, where he graduated in 1985.<ref name='louiswarren'/>
He became a teacher at Peterhouse School in Zimbabwe from 1985 until 1987.
In 1988, he began graduate study at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1993.<ref name='louiswarren'/>
== Professional career == In addition to teaching at UC Davis, Warren has written or edited several books on US Western and Environmental History. He is the co-editor of ''Boom: A Journal of California''.<ref name='boom'>{{cite web |url=http://www.boomcalifornia.com/editorial-board/ |title=Editorial Board |publisher=Boom: A Journal of California |access-date=2011-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605025847/http://www.boomcalifornia.com/editorial-board/ |archive-date=2011-06-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Awards == He has received numerous awards for his writing, including: *1997 the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award for Best Non-Fiction Book.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-museum&month=0305&week=a&msg=5fpflsm2h6Ub5OhTq6TZvg&user=&pw= |title=Larom Summer Institute Institute of Western American Studies |publisher=H-Net Discussion Networks |accessdate=24 July 2011 }}</ref> *2005 the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize.<ref name='greatplains'> {{cite web |title=Past Book Prize Winners |publisher=Center For Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |url=http://www.unl.edu/plains/bookprize/pastwinners.shtml |accessdate=23 July 2011 }}</ref> *2006 Albert Beveridge Prize<ref name='Beveridge'> {{cite web |title=Albert J. Beveridge Award |publisher=American Historical Association |url=http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/BeveridgeWinner.htm |accessdate=23 July 2011 }} </ref> of the American Historical Association *2006 Caughey-Western History Association Prize of the Western History Association.<ref name='caughey'> {{cite web |url=http://www.mnstate.edu/schwartz/westhistassoccaughey.htm |title=The Caughey-Western History Association Prize |author=Larry Schwartz |publisher=Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University |location=Moorhead, Minnesota |accessdate=24 July 2011 }} </ref> *2006 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Historical Nonfiction.<ref name='wwa'> {{cite web |title = Spur Award History |publisher = Western Writers of America, Inc. |url = http://www.westernwriters.org/spur_award_history.htm#2006 |accessdate = 23 July 2011 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100124155545/http://www.westernwriters.org/spur_award_history.htm#2006 |archivedate = 24 January 2010 }} </ref> *2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for US History.<ref name='guggenheim'> {{cite web |title=2011 Fellows - United States and Canada |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |url=http://www.gf.org/news-events/2011-Fellows-United-States-and-Canada/ |accessdate=23 July 2011 }} </ref> *2018 Bancroft Prize.<ref name='bancroft'> {{cite web |title=The Bancroft Prizes - Columbia University Libraries |publisher=Columbia University Libraries |url=https://library.columbia.edu/about/awards/bancroft.html |accessdate=13 March 2018 }} </ref>
== Publications == *{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/huntersgamepoach00warr| url-access=registration| quote=Louis S. Warren.| title=The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America| publisher= Yale University Press| year= 1997| isbn= 978-0-300-06206-9}} *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bt_-dC6PAaYC&q=Louis+S.+Warren| title= American environmental history| editor=Louis S. Warren| publisher=Wiley-Blackwell| year= 2003| isbn=978-0-631-22863-9}} *{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2lgq-ebTZfcC&q=Louis+S.+Warren| title=Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show| publisher= Alfred A. Knopf| year= 2005| isbn=978-0-375-41216-5 }} *{{cite book| title=God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America| publisher= Basic Books | year= 2017| isbn= 978-0465015023 }}
== Reviews == *{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/11ward.html| title=Showman of the Wild Frontier| author=Geoffrey C. Ward| work=The New York Times| date= December 11, 2005}}
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==External links== *{{C-SPAN|1016953}}
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