Louis S. Warren

Warren was born in Pocatello, Idaho he is the third child of Claude and Elizabeth Warren.[3]

Warren attended a two-room schoolhouse in the ghost town of Goodsprings, Nevada, and attended Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada.[4] 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.[4]

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.[4]

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.[5]

He has received numerous awards for his writing, including:

• 1997 the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award for Best Non-Fiction Book.[6]
• 2005 the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize.[7]
• 2006 Albert Beveridge Prize[8] of the American Historical Association
• 2006 Caughey-Western History Association Prize of the Western History Association.[9]
• 2006 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Historical Nonfiction.[10]
• 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for US History.[11]
• 2018 Bancroft Prize.[12]

• The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America. Yale University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-300-06206-9. Louis S. Warren.
• Louis S. Warren, ed. (2003). American environmental history. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22863-9.
• Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show. Alfred A. Knopf. 2005. ISBN 978-0-375-41216-5.
• God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. Basic Books. 2017. ISBN 978-0465015023.

• Geoffrey C. Ward (December 11, 2005). "Showman of the Wild Frontier". The New York Times.

• Appearances on C-SPAN