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
The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...
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Madsen published six books on the
Shoshone-Bannock
The Fort Hall Reservation is a Native American reservation of the federally recognized Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Shoshoni language: Pohoko’ikkateeCrum, B., Crum, E., & Dayley, J. P. (2001). Newe Hupia: Shoshoni Poetry Songs. University Press o ...
. In later life, he became a proponent of 19th-century, as opposed to anciently, positioned
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to Latter Day Saint theology, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from 600 BC to AD 421 and during an interlude date ...
studies, with his edition of the previously unpublished, early-20th-century ''
Studies of the Book of Mormon ''Studies of the Book of Mormon'' is a collection of essays written at the beginning of the 20th century (though not published until 1985) by B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS C ...
'' by
B. H. Roberts
Brigham Henry Roberts (March 13, 1857 – September 27, 1933) was a historian, politician, and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He edited the seven-volume ''History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
(1857–1933).
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Books
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* University of Utah Press.,
* University of Idaho Press
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Essays and pamphlets
* Weber State College Press, 1984.
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1914 births
2010 deaths
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers