Will Bagley (1950-2021) was an independent historian who wrote about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley was the general editor of Arthur H. Clark Company's documentary history series KINGDOM IN THE WEST: The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley was a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and a Archibald Hanna Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows has won numerous awards, including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners International Best Book, and the Western History Association Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 is the first of the two-volume Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails series.
"A major contribution to western American history."--Robert M.
Utley
"A new standard work on the massacre."--Library Journal
"A reflective and well-researched history of Mormonism's darkest
hour."--Publishers Weekly
"An exhaustive, meticulously documented, highly readable history
that captures the events and atmosphere that gave rise to the
massacre, as well as its long, tortuous aftermath."--The New York
Review of Books
"While the word 'definitive' is often overused, this account of the
killings merits that distinction. Bagley's book ranks as a Mormon
historical classic."--Brigham D. Madsen, Western Historical
Quarterly
"A major contribution to western American history."--Robert M.
Utley
"A new standard work on the massacre."--Library Journal
"A reflective and well-researched history of Mormonism's darkest
hour."--Publishers Weekly
"An exhaustive, meticulously documented, highly readable history
that captures the events and atmosphere that gave rise to the
massacre, as well as its long, tortuous aftermath."--The New York
Review of Books
"While the word 'definitive' is often overused, this account of the
killings merits that distinction. Bagley's book ranks as a Mormon
historical classic."--Brigham D. Madsen, Western Historical
Quarterly
In 1857, over 100 men, women, and children in a wagon train from Arkansas were murdered in southern Utah by local settlers aided by Southern Paiute warriors. For 50 years, Mormon historian Juanita Brooks's The Mountain Meadows Massacre has been the standard work on the subject. Here, independent historian and Salt Lake Tribune columnist Bagley claims only to extend Brooks's work. But by using documents not available to Brooks and by following her example in pursuing the truth wherever it led him while not going beyond the available evidence, he confirms her private opinion that territorial Mormon leader and governor Brigham Young was heavily involved in both the massacre and its cover-up. In the process, Bagley has produced the new standard work on the massacre. This well-written and well-thought-out analysis is essential for all libraries with collections on the West or the Mormons.-Stephen H. Peters, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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