Dan Flores

For the American football player, see Dan Flores (American football).
Dan Louie Flores
Born (1948-10-19) October 19, 1948
Vivian, Caddo Parish
Louisiana, USA
Residence Santa Fe, New Mexico
Alma mater

Northwestern State University

Texas A&M University
Occupation Writer, Historian
Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana
Years active ca. 1980-
Spouse(s) Susan I. Flores (married 1972-1978, divorced), Sara Dant (married 2014-present)

Dan Louie Flores (born 1948) is an American writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West. He held the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana until he retired in May 2014.

Background

Dan Flores is a writer who lives in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana-Missoula. Flores was born in Vivian in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana and grew up in nearby Rodessa. During the 1970s, he received his MA in history from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and his Ph.D. in 1978 from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he studied under Professor Herbert H. Lang.[1] He began his academic career at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he taught from 1978 to 1992, spent a year at the University of Wyoming in 1986, and then relocated to the University of Montana, where he held the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History from 1992 until he retired in May 2014.[2]

Works

Books

Flores is the author of ten books, two of them forthcoming in 2016:[3]

Essays and articles

Flores' essays on the environment, art, and culture of the West have appeared in magazines such as Texas Monthly, Orion, Wild West, Southwest Art, The Big Sky Journal, and High Country News, and include:

Awards and honors

Flores' work has received numerous accolades and awards including Outstanding Magazine Article, 2014 Wrangler Award, Western Heritage Association and National Cowboy Museum, for “Coyote, An American Original”; High Plains Book Awards, 2011, Winner in the category of Art/Photography Books, for Visions of the Big Sky; Montana Book Awards, 2010 Honor Book, for Visions of the Big Sky; Southwestern Book Design Awards, 2011, Finalist, for Visions of the Big Sky; Best Western Short Nonfiction, 2011, Finalist, Western Writers of America, for “Horse Trading in the Early West”; Ray Allen Billington Prize, 2009 Article Award, Western History Association, for “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses”; Outstanding Magazine Article, 2009 Wrangler Award, Western Heritage Association and National Cowboy Museum, for “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses”; Friends Choice Award, 2009, from Friends of the Montana Historical Society, for “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses”; Best Western Short Nonfiction, 2009, Finalist, Western Writers of America, for “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses”; Vivian A. Paladin Award, Best Article for 2008, Montana, the Magazine of Western History, for “Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses”; Julian Rothbaum Prize, 2005, Distinguished Book Prize, University of Oklahoma Press, for The Natural West; Caroline Bancroft History Book Prize Honor Book, 2002, Denver Public Library, for The Natural West; Best Contemporary Nonfiction Book, 2000, Finalist, Western Writers of America, for Horizontal Yellow; Nonfiction Book Prize, Finalist, 2000, Oklahoma Book Awards, for Horizontal Yellow; Best Western Short Nonfiction, 1998, Finalist, Western Writers of America, for “When Buffalo Roamed”; Outstanding Magazine Article, 1997 Wrangler Award, Western Heritage Association, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, for “When Buffalo Roamed”; Ray Allen Billington Prize, Best Article, 1984, Western History Association, for “Ecology of the Red River in 1806”; Best Book on the West, 1984, Westerner's International Co-Founders' Award, for Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration; Best Book on Texas History, 1984, Coral Tullis Prize, Texas State Historical Association, for Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration; Best Article on Texas History, 1984, H. Bailey Carroll Prize, Texas State Historical Association, for “Ecology of the Red River in 1806”

Invited lectures

Film and Media

Critical reception

As an historian of place, Flores is "one of the best this country has produced," according to acclaimed author Annie Proulx. "His work ranks with that of Thoreau, William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Peter Matthiessen."[15]

Elliott West has called Flores "one of the most respected environmental historians of his generation"[16] and William Kittredge concurs, stating that Flores belongs in "the ranks of first-string Western American writers." "Engaging and provocative," "personal, passionate, and scholarly,"[17] Flores' writing draws broad praise, including from writer William deBuys, who calls Horizontal Yellow "one of the best books about place you'll ever read.".[18]

References

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