Brigham D. Madsen
RIGHAM D. MADSEN is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and editor of B. H. Roberts's Studies of the Book of Mormon.
Mining Mormon Gold: Mormon Gold: The Story of California’s Argonauts by J. Kenneth Davies
Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 1
Reflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History
Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3
Dialogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. But only thirteen years later Roberts was to change his mind and that dramatically.