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Brigham D. Madsen
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Born (1914-10-21)October 21, 1914
Died December 24, 2010(2010-12-24) (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(s) 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 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.

Madsen published six books on the Shoshone-Bannock. 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of 19th-century, as opposed to anciently, positioned Book of Mormon studies, with his edition of the previously unpublished, early-20th-century Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts (1857–1933).

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