Louis S Warren
Biographic Data
| ID | 570658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis S Warren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis S |
| FAMILY NAME | Warren |
| SIGNATURE | WARREN L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
David Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate
The California Dream
In recent years, press and political leaders have lamented the demise of the California Dream, a vaguely defined, popular ideal of California life that is said to have originated in the gold rush and to have energized California’s ascent. This essay argues that the emergence of a national ideal of California life can tell us much about changes in American culture, especially since the actual history of the California Dream departs so widely from …
Imperial Deserts
Eternity Street
The history of western violence has a long and esteemed bibliography, to which John Mack Faragher has made a remarkable addition with Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. Prior scholars have debated the violence mostly of post–Civil War settlements, the cattle towns of Kansas, or the mining camps and ranges of the Southwest. And yet, few of those places could have been more terrifying than Los Angeles County in the 1850s…
Wage Work in the Sacred Circle
The Ghost Dance is commonly understood as a backward-looking rejection of modern life. Yet the teachings of the religion often incorporated exhortations to wage labor and other instructions for good living in the reservation era as necessary measures to precipitate the millennium. In reaching backward and forward simultaneously, the Ghost Dance helped resolve contradictions of Indian identity in the post-conquest world
Animal Visions
Wild animal abundance and scarcity have been key to religious and secular visions of the American future for centuries, and changes in their meanings reflect radical shifts in understandings of nature and progress. In the colonial era, the extirpation of wildlife was a sign of the fulfillment of prophecy and the conquest of Indians. But by the late nineteenth century, fears of wildlife decline were so great as to render the Ghost Dance, an Americ…
Outside America
Journal Article Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging Get access Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging. By Moos Dan. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, 2005. xii + 260 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren University of California, Davis Sea…
Cody's Last Stand
Close analysis of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show suggests that frontier mythology of the late nineteenth century was more domestically oriented than most historians have assumed. In fact, the show relied on scenes of family defense more than it did on depictions of “Custer's Last Fight.” How William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody utilized domestic imagery, and why he appears to have dropped it near the end of his career, suggests changes in his personal b…
Hunting and the American Imagination
Journal Article Hunting and the American Imagination. By Daniel Justin Herman. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. xviii, 356 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-919-X.) Get access Louis Warren Louis Warren University of CaliforniaDavis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 621–622, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092202 Published: 01…
The Return of the Savage
Ethnohistory - Volume 49, Number 3, Summer 2002
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Louis S. Warren; Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 November 2001, Pages
Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920
Journal Article Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880–1920. By Clare V. McKanna Jr. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. xiv, 206 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1708-8) Get access Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
The Hunter's Game
Journal Article The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America. By Louis S. Warren. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv, 227 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06206-0.) Get access Mark Harvey Mark Harvey North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1166–1167, https://doi.…
Common Lands, Common People
Journal Article Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. By Richard W. Judd. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xvi, 335 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-14581-X.) Get access Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 714–715, htt…
The Hunter's Game
This provocative book takes a new look at the angry struggles between American conservationists and local hunters since the rise of wildlife conservation at the end of the 1800s. From Italian immigrants in Pennsylvania, to rural settlers and Indians in New Mexico, to Blackfeet in Montana, local hunters' traditions of using wildlife have clashed with conservationist ideas of proper hunting for over a century. Louis Warren contends that these confl…
The Free Life of a Ranger
Journal Article The Free Life of a Ranger: Archie Murchie in the U. S. Forest Service, 1929–1965 Get access The Free Life of a Ranger: Archie Murchie in the U. S. Forest Service, 1929–1965. By King R. T.. (Reno: Oral History Program, University of Nevada, 1991. xx + 409 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, notes, index. $24.95.) Louis Warren Louis Warren Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Imperial Deserts
Common Lands, Common People
Journal Article Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. By Richard W. Judd. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xvi, 335 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-14581-X.) Get access Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 714–715, htt…
Wage Work in the Sacred Circle
The Ghost Dance is commonly understood as a backward-looking rejection of modern life. Yet the teachings of the religion often incorporated exhortations to wage labor and other instructions for good living in the reservation era as necessary measures to precipitate the millennium. In reaching backward and forward simultaneously, the Ghost Dance helped resolve contradictions of Indian identity in the post-conquest world
Cody's Last Stand
Close analysis of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show suggests that frontier mythology of the late nineteenth century was more domestically oriented than most historians have assumed. In fact, the show relied on scenes of family defense more than it did on depictions of “Custer's Last Fight.” How William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody utilized domestic imagery, and why he appears to have dropped it near the end of his career, suggests changes in his personal b…
Hunting and the American Imagination
Journal Article Hunting and the American Imagination. By Daniel Justin Herman. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. xviii, 356 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-919-X.) Get access Louis Warren Louis Warren University of CaliforniaDavis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 621–622, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092202 Published: 01…
The Free Life of a Ranger
Journal Article The Free Life of a Ranger: Archie Murchie in the U. S. Forest Service, 1929–1965 Get access The Free Life of a Ranger: Archie Murchie in the U. S. Forest Service, 1929–1965. By King R. T.. (Reno: Oral History Program, University of Nevada, 1991. xx + 409 pp. Illustrations, maps, glossary, notes, index. $24.95.) Louis Warren Louis Warren Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920
Journal Article Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880–1920. By Clare V. McKanna Jr. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. xiv, 206 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1708-8) Get access Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 262–263, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
The Hunter's Game
Journal Article The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America. By Louis S. Warren. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xiv, 227 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06206-0.) Get access Mark Harvey Mark Harvey North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1166–1167, https://doi.…
Common Lands, Common People
Journal Article Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. By Richard W. Judd. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xvi, 335 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-14581-X.) Get access Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren University of San Diego, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 714–715, htt…
The Hunter's Game
This provocative book takes a new look at the angry struggles between American conservationists and local hunters since the rise of wildlife conservation at the end of the 1800s. From Italian immigrants in Pennsylvania, to rural settlers and Indians in New Mexico, to Blackfeet in Montana, local hunters' traditions of using wildlife have clashed with conservationist ideas of proper hunting for over a century. Louis Warren contends that these confl…
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Louis S. Warren; Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 November 2001, Pages
Hunting and the American Imagination
Journal Article Hunting and the American Imagination. By Daniel Justin Herman. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. xviii, 356 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-919-X.) Get access Louis Warren Louis Warren University of CaliforniaDavis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 621–622, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092202 Published: 01…
The Return of the Savage
Ethnohistory - Volume 49, Number 3, Summer 2002
Cody's Last Stand
Close analysis of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show suggests that frontier mythology of the late nineteenth century was more domestically oriented than most historians have assumed. In fact, the show relied on scenes of family defense more than it did on depictions of “Custer's Last Fight.” How William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody utilized domestic imagery, and why he appears to have dropped it near the end of his career, suggests changes in his personal b…
Outside America
Journal Article Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging Get access Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging. By Moos Dan. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, 2005. xii + 260 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Louis S. Warren Louis S. Warren University of California, Davis Sea…
Animal Visions
Wild animal abundance and scarcity have been key to religious and secular visions of the American future for centuries, and changes in their meanings reflect radical shifts in understandings of nature and progress. In the colonial era, the extirpation of wildlife was a sign of the fulfillment of prophecy and the conquest of Indians. But by the late nineteenth century, fears of wildlife decline were so great as to render the Ghost Dance, an Americ…
Wage Work in the Sacred Circle
The Ghost Dance is commonly understood as a backward-looking rejection of modern life. Yet the teachings of the religion often incorporated exhortations to wage labor and other instructions for good living in the reservation era as necessary measures to precipitate the millennium. In reaching backward and forward simultaneously, the Ghost Dance helped resolve contradictions of Indian identity in the post-conquest world
Eternity Street
The history of western violence has a long and esteemed bibliography, to which John Mack Faragher has made a remarkable addition with Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. Prior scholars have debated the violence mostly of post–Civil War settlements, the cattle towns of Kansas, or the mining camps and ranges of the Southwest. And yet, few of those places could have been more terrifying than Los Angeles County in the 1850s…
Imperial Deserts
The California Dream
In recent years, press and political leaders have lamented the demise of the California Dream, a vaguely defined, popular ideal of California life that is said to have originated in the gold rush and to have energized California’s ascent. This essay argues that the emergence of a national ideal of California life can tell us much about changes in American culture, especially since the actual history of the California Dream departs so widely from …
David Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate
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