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 | |
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| Born | October 21, 1914[1] |
| Died | December 24, 2010 (aged 96)[1] |
| Education | Idaho State College (Assoc. Arts, 1934) University of Utah (1938) University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1948)[1] |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | University of Utah (1965–1984)[1] |
| Spouse | Mary Harriman Madsen (m. 2003)[1] |
| 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)[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of 19th-century, as opposed to anciently, positioned Book of Mormon studies, with his edition of the previously unpublished, early-20th-century Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts (1857–1933).[6]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
- —— (1986). Chief Pocatello, the "White Plume". 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.[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 (1987). —— (ed.). Missionary to the Mountain West: reminiscences of Episcopal Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle, 1866-1886. ISBN 9780874803051.
- ——. 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
- "Obituary: MADSEN, BRIGHAM". deseretnews.com. 2 January 2011.
- "Studies of the Book of Mormon - Signature Books".
- Stack, Peggy Fletcher (December 29, 2010). "Utah historian, author, dies at 96". The Salt Lake Tribune.
- "Archives West: Brigham D. Madsen papers, 18542-2000". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- "A tribute to Brigham Madsen". blackfootjournal.com.
- Hardy, Grant (7 April 2010). Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199731701 – via Google Books.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. S2CID 161373226.
- Alexander, Thomas G. (1986). "Review of B. H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 19 (4): 190–193. doi:10.2307/45225525. JSTOR 45225525. S2CID 254349231.
- 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.
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.)
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