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Dan Flores

Disciplines:
history
ecology
writing
america/american west

Summary

American historian of the American West — University of Montana (emeritus) — author of Coyote America and American Serengeti — who writes environmental history of the Great Plains.

Core Contribution

Creates the ecological history of the American West — Coyote America's account of the coyote's 5-million-year history and its survival of all human attempts to exterminate it is the most complete natural history of any North American predator in popular form.

Notable Works & Achievements

Coyote America

American Serengeti

Wild New World

Historical Influences

Donald Worster Barry Lopez

Intellectual Lineage

University of MontanaUniversity of New Mexico American West environmental history

Contemporaries & Peers

S.C. Gwynne David Grann

Minds Influenced

American West environmental history

Intellectual Posterity

Coyote America American Serengeti

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