Steve Warren
Last Raid at Cabin Creek

Steve Warren, the writer-producer of the award-winning Civil War documentary "Last Raid at Cabin Creek," will portray a newspaper reporter from Houston, Texas traveling with Gano's Texas Cavalry Brigade in Indian Territory. Warren's documentary tells the true and as-to-now untold story of how a combined force of Texas and Native American troops led by Brigadier Generals Stand Watie and Richard M. Gano captured a Federal supply train of 300 wagons at Cabin Creek, Cherokee Nation on September 19, 1864.  Currently employed by KOTV, Tulsa, Oklahoma,  Steve will have his 2 Tape VCR documentary available the day of the seminar.

Steve Warren is a television producer with several national and regional writing, producing and directing credits achieved during his 20 years of work in television broadcasting, national cable television and advertising.  Steve wrote, produced and co-directed “Last Raid at Cabin Creek.”  His research took him to dusty archives in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri as he prepared the video documentary.  He found and brought to light new eyewitness information about the Cabin Creek battle which has not been seen for more than 80 years. After the documentary was produced, Steve received a personal congratulatory note from author Shelby Foote who wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning three-volume “The Civil War: A Narrative.”  Foote was also featured in Ken Burns’ epic PBS series “The Civil War.”

Warren is currently researching and writing a book on the battles of Cabin Creek, which will be available in 2001.  In addition, Steve is writing a screenplay based on the events surrounding the Second Battle of Cabin Creek.

Warren received his Master of Arts in Journalism & Mass Communication with screenplay/film emphasis from the University of Oklahoma.  His graduate minor was Plains Indians Anthropology.   He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Tulsa. Steve is a member of a myriad of organizations including Sons of Confederate Veterans, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (currently vice commander), Tulsa Civil War Round Table (currently secretary/treasurer), Civil War Preservation Trust, Oklahoma Historical Society, Friends of Cabin Creek Battlefield, Inc., J. R. Williams Recovery Committee, Smithsonian Associates, National Geographic Society and the Owasso Historical Society.

Currently, Steve is the website producer for kotv.com, the website of KOTV Channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Warren says the potential of the Internet is unlimited.  “It combines the best of print, audio, video, and film,” he said.  “The Internet can entertain, but most importantly, it can let those do want to learn – to do historical research – do so at the touch of a button.” The “Last Raid at Cabin Creek” website is located at http://www.cabincreek.home-page.org (click here for current page).   He has just completed the “Cabin Creek Battlefield Virtual Tour” and an album of behind-the-scenes photos from the making of the documentary.  Both can also be accessed from the Cabin Creek website on battlefield descriptions in Indian Territory.