Kenneth N. Owens is Professor Emeritus of History and Ethnic
Studies at California State University, Sacramento. He is the
author or editor of numerous books, including Riches for All: The
California Gold Rush and the World.
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.
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