Brigham D. Madsen

Brigham D. Madsen
Born	Brigham Dwaine Madsen (1914-10-21)October 21, 1914 Magna, Utah, U.S.
Died	December 24, 2010(2010-12-24) (aged 96)
Education	Idaho State College (Assoc. Arts, 1934) University of Utah (1938) University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1948)
Occupation	Professor
Employer	University of Utah (1965–1984)
Spouse	Mary Harriman Madsen (m. 2003)
Awards	Utah 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)

Brigham Dwaine Madsen (October 21, 1914 – December 24, 2010) was an American historian with an emphasis on indigenous peoples of the American West, the people of Utah and surrounding states, and Mormonism. He was a longtime professor at the University of Utah.

Madsen published six books on the Shoshone-Bannock. In Madsen's later life, he became a proponent Book of Mormon studies anchored in the 19th Century context of the book's publication rather than a focus on the ancient setting of the book's narrative. Madsen edited the previously unpublished, early-20th-century Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts (1857–1933).

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.
• —— (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
• —— (1986). Chief Pocatello, the "White Plume". University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874802566. 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.
• ——. 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.
• 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 (1987). —— (ed.). Missionary to the Mountain West: reminiscences of Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle, 1866-1886. University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874803051.
• ——. Against the grain: memoirs of a western historian.

Essays and pamphlets

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

External links

• "Against The Grain: An Interview With Historian, Educator, And Author Brigham D. Madsen", Sunstone Magazine, January 2000

Archives

• "Brigham D. Madsen papers, 1854–2000", Special Collections and Archives, University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City(Contains diaries, correspondence, research files, and manuscripts. In addition, there is primary and secondary source material on the Northwestern Shoshone Indians, most particularly the Shoshone and Bannock, whose tribal lands are now limited to the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Southeastern Idaho.){{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)