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Dan Flores

Professor of Western History, University of Montana

Dan Flores is the A. B. Hammond Professor of Western History at the University of Montana, Missoula. A distinguished teacher, lecturer, and author, his current list of publications contains six books and more than a dozen scholarly essays, plus two forthcoming books, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Plains and Rockies (University of Oklahoma Press) and The Sacred Circle: Indians and Buffalo in the American West (Yale).

His Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration, the annotated journals of the Freeman-Custis Expedition, is scheduled for reprinting in the summer of 2002 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Professor Flores’ principal fields of interest are the history of the American West, American environmental history, art and the American West, and Native American history.


Dan Flores es el catedrático A. B. Hammond de Historia del Oeste en la Uníversidad de Montana, Missoula. Instructor distinguido, conferencista, y escritor, su lista actual de publicaciones cuenta con seis libros y más de una docena de ensayos de investigación, además de los libros en prensa. El Oeste Natural: Historia del medio ambiente en las Ilanuras y Montañas Rocosas (Editorial de la Universidad de Oklahoma) y El Circulo Sagrado: Indios y Búfalo enel Oeste Americano (Yale).

Su obra Jefferson y la Exploración Freeman-Custis, va a ser reeditada en el verano de 2002 en la Editorial de la Universidad de Oklahoma.

Los principales campos de interés del profesor Flores son la historia del oeste americano, la historia americaqna del medio ambiente, el arte del oeste americano, y la histgoria de los nativos americanos.

 

Contributions

    The Freeman-Custis Expedition

    The "Grand Excursion"

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    Narrated in both English and Spanish, Daniel Flores tells the story of a parallel, southern exploration now nearly forgotten.

    Bison in Decline

    An interview with Dan Flores

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    In this interview, Dan Flores, A.B. Hammond Professor of History at The University of Montana, sets the scene at the time of Lewis and Clark, and then discusses some of those circumstances which brought the American bison to the brink of extinction.

    La Freeman-Custis Expedición

    La Gran Excursión

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    Narrado tanto en inglés como en español, Daniel Flores narra la historia de una exploración paralela y sureña ahora casi olvidada.

Discover More

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.