Brigham D. Madsen

Brigham Dwaine Madsen (October 21, 1914 – December 24, 2010) was a historian of indigenous peoples of the American West, of the people of Utah and surrounding states, and of Mormonism. He was a professor at the University of Utah.[3][4]

Brigham D. Madsen
Born(1914-10-21)October 21, 1914[1]
Magna, Utah[1]
DiedDecember 24, 2010(2010-12-24) (aged 96)[1]
EducationIdaho State College (Assoc. Arts, 1934)
University of Utah (1938)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1948)[1]
OccupationProfessor
EmployerUniversity of Utah (1965–1984)[1]
Spouse(s)Mary Harriman Madsen (m. 2003)[1]
AwardsUtah State Historical Society (military history: Glory Hunter)
Westerners International (books: North to Montana!; Shoshoni Frontier)
John Whitmer Historical Association (book: as editor, B. H. Roberts' Studies of the Book of Mormon)[2]

Madsen published six books on the Shoshone-Bannock.[5] In later life, he became a proponent of 19th-century, as opposed to anciently, positioned Book of Mormon studies, with his edition of the previously unpublished, early-20th-century Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts (1857–1933).[6]

Publications

Books
  • Betty M. Madsen; —— (1998) [1980]. North to Montana!: Jehus, Bullwhackers, and Mule Skinners on the Montana Trail. Utah State University Press. ISBN 9780874212594.[7]
  • —— (1979). The Lemhi: Sacajawea's People. Caxton Printers. ISBN 9780870042676.
  • —— (1958). The Bannock of Idaho. University of Idaho Press.
  • —— (1980). The Northern Shoshoni. Caxton Press. ISBN 9780870042669.
  • ——. The Shoshoni frontier and the Bear River massacre. University of Utah Press., ISBN 9780874804942
  • ——. Chief Pocatello, the "White Plume". University of Idaho Press
  • —— (ed.). Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H Roberts.
  • ——. Gold Rush sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 and 1850.
  • ——. Glory hunter: a biography of Patrick Edward Connor.[8][9][10]
  • ——. Exploring the Great Salt Lake: the Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50.
  • ——. The Now generation: student essays on social change in the sixties. University of Utah
  • —— (ed.). A forty-niner in Utah: with the Stansbury exploration of Great Salt Lake: letters and journal of John Hudson, 1848-50.
  • —— (1980). Corinne: the gentile capital of Utah. University State Historical Society.
  • —— (ed.). The essential B.H. Roberts.[11][12]
  • R. N Baskin. —— (ed.). Reminiscences of early Utah: with, Reply to certain statements by O.F. Whitney.
  • ——. History of the upper Snake River valley, 1807-1825.
  • Daniel Sylvester Tuttle. —— (ed.). Missionary to the Mountain West: reminiscences of Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle, 1866-1886.
  • ——. Against the grain: memoirs of a western historian.[13]

Essays and pamphlets
  • ——. Encounter with the Northwestern Shoshoni at Bear River in 1863: battle or massacre?. Weber State College Press, 1984.

References
  1. "Obituary: MADSEN, BRIGHAM". deseretnews.com. 2 January 2011.
  2. "Studies of the Book of Mormon - Signature Books".
  3. Stack, Peggy Fletcher (December 29, 2010). "Utah historian, author, dies at 96". The Salt Lake Tribune.
  4. "Archives West: Brigham D. Madsen papers, 18542-2000". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
  5. "A tribute to Brigham Madsen". blackfootjournal.com.
  6. Hardy, Grant (7 April 2010). Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199731701 – via Google Books.
  7. Jackson, W. Turrentine (1981). "Review of North to Montana! Jehus, Bullwhackers, and Mule Skinners on the Montana Trail". The Western Historical Quarterly. 12 (3): 329. doi:10.2307/3556601. ISSN 0043-3810. JSTOR 3556601.
  8. Ellis, Richard N. (1994). "Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor by Brigham D. Madsen (Book Review)". Pacific Historical Review. 63 (2): 251. doi:10.2307/3640875. JSTOR 3640875.
  9. Greene, Jerome A. (1991). "Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor by Brigham D. Madsen (Book Review)". New Mexico Historical Review. 66 (4): 461.
  10. Billington, Monroe (1991). "Review of Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor by Brigham D. Madsen". The Western Historical Quarterly. 22 (3): 373. doi:10.2307/969781. JSTOR 969781.
  11. Hill, Marvin S. (1986). "Review of Studies of the Book of Mormon. By B.H. Roberts. Edited by Brigham D. Madsen. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. 375 pp. $21.95". Church History. 55 (4): 546–548. doi:10.2307/3166410. JSTOR 3166410.
  12. Alexander, Thomas G. (1986). "Review of B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 19 (4): 190–193. JSTOR 45225525.
  13. Mulder, William (1999). "Review of Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Western Historian by Brigham D. Madsen". The Western Historical Quarterly. 30 (4): 521. doi:10.2307/971438. JSTOR 971438.
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