Brigham D. Madsen
Brigham D. Madsen | |
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| Born | Brigham Dwaine Madsen October 21, 1914 Magna, Utah, U.S. |
| Died | December 24, 2010 (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 Madsen edited the previously unpublished, early-20th-century Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts (1857–1933).