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The first six boxes of this collection contain personal material, ranging from 1934 to 1996. Madsen's correspondence, found in boxes 1 and 2, spans his career from his acceptance of a Brigham Young University associate professorship in the late 1940s to his 1984 retirement from the University of Utah. His subsequent activities as a lecturer and author are also documented. Although these files contain references to Madsen's activities as a builder, consultant, and administrator, the bulk of the correspondence is from the 1980s and is concerned with his activities as an author and university professor. Many of the letters refer to the history and culture of the Shoshone Indians and to Mormon theology and the policies of the LDS Church. Although the bulk of the correspondence is letters received, some outgoing correspondence remains, either in the form of carbon copies or Madsen's handwritten drafts. There are a few third-party letters, usually written or received by close friends such as Everett Cooley or Sterling McMurrin. The correspondence is organized chronologically, with undated correspondence filed in box 2, folders 24-25

Box 3 contains photocopies of Madsen's missionary and armed forces diaries, a few autobiographical pieces, and some biographical information. Also included are sketches penned by Madsen for various memorial services. A manuscript of Wood Chips and Chalk Dust, a 1996 version of Madsen's autobiography, is located in box 4. Madsen's own description of the manuscript, written in the third person, is in folder 1. An earlier version of this document, dated 1985, was bound and distributed to members of the Madsen family. A revised manuscript, donated in 1997, is located in box 134. The Richard Poll interview located in box 4, folders 24-25 was conducted in 1988 under the auspices of the BYU Emeritus Club, and concerns Madsen's experiences at that University.

Section II of the collection, housed in boxes 6 through 20, contains documents that provide an overview of Madsen's career as an administrator, historian, and university professor. His military service is documented in boxes 6 and 7, which contain a copy of the two-volume history of the United States Third Army while under the command of General George S. Patton, Jr. Madsen's predecessor in the historical division oversaw the preparation of this official account of the activities of Patton's army, of which less than 300 copies were printed. Documents pertaining to Madsen's activities as assistant director of training for the Peace Corps and as director of training for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) are located in box 8. This material includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, pamphlets and brochures, newsletters, observation notes and articles related to the "war on poverty". Peace Corps and VISTA materials are filed separately. Correspondence and memoranda for both organizations are located in folders 1-5. Additional Peace Corps material can be found in folders 7-19, with VISTA material following. These materials are in rough chronological order. Articles related to the role of education in the "war on poverty" are located in folders 30-37. Box 9 contains a few documents resulting from Madsen's years as a professor of history at the University of Utah. Most documents date from the early 1970s. This box also contains seven folders of material pertaining to the Shoshone-Bannock tribe of Fort Hall, Idaho. Personal notes, memos and correspondence on matters related to the University of Utah history department are housed in box 10. ACCESS TO THE MATERIAL IN BOX 10 REQUIRES THE PERMISSION OF THE MANUSCRIPTS DIVISION HEAD.

Documents pertaining to Madsen's work as a consulting historian are located in boxes 11 through 20. Madsen provided background information on nineteenth-century land grant legislation in the case of Anschutz Land and Livestock Company vs. The Union Pacific Railroad. The Anschutz family had acquired large tracts of land from Union Pacific. The railroad had retained rights to coal, iron, and "other minerals." Philip Anschutz attempted to question the validity of the Union Pacific title to the mineral rights on public lands granted to the railroad in the nineteenth century. The case turned on the question of whether oil and gas, not specifically mentioned in the deed, were to be considered minerals. This linguistic ambiguity provided a wedge for the Anschutz legal team to open the question of the original intent of the contractual parties. Reasoning that the Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1864 were designed to support construction of an intercontinental railroad and open public lands to settlement rather than to enrich railroad magnates, lawyers for Anschutz intended to argue that reservation of the mineral rights by the railroad violated congressional intent and public policy at the time the original deeds were transacted. Madsen's research was directed toward assembling information on the prevailing nineteenth-century perception of what constituted a mineral, what the rights and responsibilities of recipients of public lands were thought to be, and what public land policy was intended to accomplish.

This material begins with correspondence detailing legal strategy and the research requirements necessary to lend weight to various lines of argument the legal team wished to pursue. Also included in box 11 are copies of legal documents filed and supporting documentation. Box 12 contains photocopies of documents from land grant cases where elements of the decision were thought to support arguments to be made in the Anschutz case. Boxes 14 through 18 contain the research produced by Madsen in accordance with his research outline of November, 1978 (located in box 14, folder 1). The documents in these boxes are arranged according to the fourteen record series identified by Madsen in his index to documents related to Union Pacific land grants (located in box 14, folders 2-4). The Serial Set of Congressional Documents noted here refers to the compilation of government documents prepared by and for the use of the legislative branch. These documents were published under the title The Congressional Globe until March of 1873, when the title was changed to The Congressional Record. The material here typically consists of photocopied documents with Madsen's underlining and margin notes. Folders retain the original Madsen titles. Boxes 19 and 20 contain copies of articles related to land grant policy in the United States written between 1883 and 1979. These articles are arranged chronologically by publication date and thereunder alphabetically by author. These files provide an overview of the major issues in land grant legislation and the relevant historiographical debates on the role played by the railroads in the development of the United States as a continental nation and the associated evolution of public land policy.

The documents in this section give a general overview of Madsen's interests as a writer. While material pertaining to individual books (written mainly in the 1980s) follows this section, the documents found in boxes 21 through 26 span a period of over five decades, from a student paper on the Snake River valley written in 1942 to a retrospective look at the writing of history published in 1995. Boxes 21 and 22 contain drafts, manuscripts and published copies of various articles written by Madsen from 1947 to 1995. Articles which relate more closely to a published book are filed with the material on that book in other sections of the collection. Box 23 contains documents relative to Madsen's affiliation with the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) from 1991 to 1995. In addition to correspondence, pamphlets and newsletters, this box contains documents relative to Madsen's attempt to win official status for the Montana Trail. Madsen's speech on the Montana Trail, prepared for the 12th annual OCTA convention in 1994, was published in the Overland Journal the following year. Boxes 24 through 26 contain reviews of books and articles produced by Madsen between 1956 and 1996. These files typically contain notes, handwritten drafts or typescripts of the reviews. In cases where Madsen kept a copy of the article, this has been filed with his review. Box 24 contains reviews on topics related to the history of the Intermountain West and works being considered for publication in the Tanner Trust Fund series. Boxes 25 and 26 contain Madsen's files on recent books relative to the history and theology of the LDS Church.

Madsen's first book, The Bannock of Idaho (Caxton Printers, 1958), was written in the summer of 1948 as a Ph.D. dissertation. The correspondence associated with this manuscript, ranging from inquiries about research possibilities in the late 1940s to letters related to publication of a paperback edition in the mid-1990s, is in box 27. Very little of Madsen's early research remains, although folders 10-12 contain research notes for his M. A. thesis. Preliminary school papers on related topics and a typescript of Madsen's dissertation follow the correspondence. Madsen revised the manuscript and submitted it to Caxton Printers in the mid-1950s. Two drafts, located in boxes 28 and 29, are dated 1955, with portions of the manuscript labeled "editorial draft" dating from 1958. Reviews of the book can be found in box 29, folder 21. A draft of Madsen's introduction to the 1997 edition is located in box 28, folder 22. The original dissertation rough draft and a revised preliminary version of this manuscript, donated as this register was being finalized, can be found in boxes 130 and 131.

Documents in this section pertain to Madsen's editorship of the Agnes Just Reid manuscript, Letters of Long Ago (University of Utah, Tanner Trust Fund, 1973), which reconstructed the life of Emma Thompson Just. Madsen's research was invaluable in legitimizing the Reid manuscript as a species of history, albeit an unusual one. The book was reviewed in such scholarly journals as the Pacific Historical Review, the Nevada Historical Quarterly, and the Journal of Arizona History, indicating general acceptance of Mrs. Reid's work as something more than fiction, although perhaps not quite history. Correspondence, biographical information, and a 1972 interview with the author are located first, followed by the research files associated with this manuscript. These files are limited to genealogical information on the Thompson and Just families and information needed to flesh out the Thompson family connection with the nineteenth-century Mormon splinter group known as the Morrisites.

This section contains documents associated with The Lemhi and The Northern Shoshoni, published by Caxton Printers in 1979 and 1980, respectively. Madsen had been approached by the law firm of Wilkinson, Cragun and Barker who were representing the Shoshone-Bannock Indians of Fort Hall, Idaho, in a suit against the United States government. The firm needed an expert witness to provide historical background on the complicated relations between the diverse Shoshoni bands and the encroaching white settlers, whose interests were variously represented by the federal government, territorial governments, military governments, and the powerful quasi-government of the Mormon Church. Madsen's main interest in the project was writing a more comprehensive study of the Shoshone than had been possible within the limitations of his graduate work. It was necessary to follow one format for the history used by the Sho-Ban legal team and another for his proposed academic history of the Northern Shoshone. In addition, the publishers felt that the material on the Lemhi warranted preparation of a separate monograph, which was to be extracted from the larger history and published first. This editorial decision is documented in the correspondence found in box 31. Reviews for both books follow the correspondence.

Source documents associated with rewriting of the history of the Lemhi band are located in box 32, followed by manuscript drafts and publication material. The remainder of this section contains Madsen's files on the Northern Shoshone, which have been left in his original order. These files are arranged both topically and according to record series. Documents that originated in the Department of the Interior are in box 33. Box 34 contains documents relating to the management of various Indian reservations in the intermountain west in the nineteenth century. Documents related to twentieth-century reservation management and Indian self-government are located in box 35. Of special interest is box 38, which contains an exhaustive chronology on the Indian agents. Documents produced by the Sho-Ban legal team listing possible claims are found in box 39, folder 1.

This manuscript went through several revisions before publication. The editorial decision to produce two books is documented in box 31, folders 1-9, which contains correspondence relating to the research and publication of both books followed by post-publication reviews. Madsen's first draft, handwritten on yellow legal pads, can be found in box 39, followed by the first typescript in box 40. Box 41 contains a complete revision. The Lemhi material has been removed and an introduction by Merle Wells added. Boxes 42 and 43 contain revised manuscripts produced between 1975 and 1979. Revisions here are generally an attempt to cut the size of the manuscript by removing extraneous detail and repetitive phrases

North to Montana! (University of Utah Press, 1980), a history of freighting between Salt Lake City and Fort Benton, Montana, was a collaboration with Betty Madsen. Most of the research was compiled by Betty from sources in the Library of Congress and the National Archives in the mid-1960s while the Madsens were living in the Washington, D. C. area. There are virtually no research files associated with this manuscript, except for the scattered remnants found in box 44, folders 1-5 and in the 1997 addendum, box 132. Some research material may be interfiled with the other 1980 books produced by Madsen. North to Montana! was written over a period of years, beginning in the Autumn of 1965. The Madsens published a preliminary article in the Utah Historical Quarterly in 1971 which is located in box 44, folder 6. An early typescript of this manuscript is located in boxes 44 and 45, followed by chapter revisions. There is no final version of this book in the collection, although an incomplete rough draft and some chapter revisions are located in boxes 132 and 133. Correspondence associated with publication and reviews are located in box 48, folders 10-11.

This section contains research material for Corinne: Gentile Capital of Utah (Utah State Historical Society, 1980), a monograph of the frontier community whose manufactured hysterics Madsen credited with hastening the destruction of the Northwest Shoshone. In addition to its role in bringing about the Bear River Massacre, Corinne had figured prominently in the Madsens' account of freighting along the Montana Trail. Described by one reviewer as "a study of nineteenth-century Gentile-Mormon relations in microcosm," this book marked the beginning of Madsen's exploration of the interplay between regional events and national trends. Research material in this section includes letters, published congressional debates, published and unpublished articles and papers, and photocopies of nineteenth-century newspaper stories. Secondary sources, located in boxes 49 and 50, are organized alphabetically by author. The chronological files in boxes 50-53 contain photocopies from a wide selection of Western newspapers, including The Corinne Daily Mail, The Idaho Statesman, The Ogden Junction, and The Utah Mining Gazette, as well as the more well-known Salt Lake City newspapers. Madsen's research chronologies (handwritten documents placing source materials in chronological order) serve as a bridge between these two types of research files. These chronologies are located in box 50, folders 14-17. Manuscript drafts are located in boxes 53 and 54. Related articles published by Madsen between 1969 and 1980 are located in box 54 following the review files.

This section contains material related to A Forty-niner in Utah (University of Utah Library, 1981). The genesis of this book was the purchase by the Marriott Library of the papers of John Hudson, a young Englishman who immigrated to New York, crossed the plains to the Salt Lake valley, and became a member of Stansbury's expedition to survey and maps the Great Salt Lake. Hudson's brief appearance in the historical record began with a letter to his family penned aboard the Cambridge, outbound from Liverpool in 1848, and ended in 1852 with a letter written by an agent of the Hudson family in New York City notifying Benjamin Hudson of the death of his son in Utah. Madsen's research files are arranged chronologically following John Hudson's movements. For example, research relating to sea travel in the nineteenth century is located in box 55, folders 9-12, "August-September, 1848," since this is the period of time when Hudson was aboard ship. Research on topics related to pioneer life in Utah are located in folders 17-18 of this box, labeled "John Hudson, April, 1850." There are two manuscript drafts following the research files: the usual Madsen first draft--handwritten in pencil on legal pads--and the editorial draft, which reflects the process of paring down the outcome of Madsen's prodigious research. Both Margery Ward and Everett Cooley made editorial notes on this manuscript. Following the material relating to publication of the book are notes, source documents and drafts of Madsen's article on John Hudson's trek across the plains, "The Colony Guard to California in '49," which was published in Utah Historical Quarterly in 1983.

This section contains materials for Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City (University of Utah Press, 1983), Madsen's study of emigrants passing through the Salt Lake valley en route to the gold fields of California. The documents in this section reflect Madsen's focus on Mormon-gentile perceptions of one another. In Madsen's view, Mormon-gentile conflict had been exaggerated in historical writing. He suggested that the gentile view of Mormon culture in general, and of polygamy in particular, was more tolerant than histories based on nineteenth-century polemic literature had suggested. Madsen spent the Spring of 1981 researching collections at the National Archives as well as the Bancroft, Huntington, and Yale University libraries. Many of the documents in these boxes are from those sources. Madsen's research files for this book are arranged alphabetically by author. This section contains notes on and photocopies of documents relating to westward immigration. Primary and secondary sources are interspersed. Primary sources include published and unpublished diaries, journals, and letters, biographical sketches, family histories, newspaper articles, and military documents. There are three versions of this manuscript. Madsen's rough draft, located in box 60 beginning with folder 12, was originally titled "Mormon Halfway House in the Gold Rush," after John Unruh's characterization of the Salt Lake valley in The Plains Across. The name was apparently changed in response to one reader's complaint that the title suggested a roadside inn. Revisions to the manuscript are located in box 61, folders 1-8. Two of Madsen speeches related to this book, given eleven years apart, are included in box 61 following the reviews and correspondence.

This section contains documents related to Madsen's controversial B. H. Roberts: Studies of the Book of Mormon (University of Illinois Press, 1985), which raised the question of the extent to which Roberts had questioned the divine origin of the Book of Mormon. The genesis of this book was the acquisition by the Marriott Library of three unpublished manuscripts written by B. H. Roberts. In the first manuscript, "Book of Mormon Difficulties: A Study," Roberts explored some of the more common criticisms of the Book of Mormon. Two later manuscripts, "A Book of Mormon Study" and "A Parallel" contain Roberts' exploration of points of comparison between the Book of Mormon and Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews. These three manuscripts form the basis for the book, which also includes correspondence produced by Roberts relative to his Book of Mormon scholarship. Madsen edited the manuscripts for publication and prepared explanatory footnotes. Everett Cooley wrote the preface and Sterling M. McMurrin penned a brief biography of B. H. Roberts.

Madsen's correspondence about the manuscript and about general questions of intellectual freedom and the LDS Church is located in box 62, along with material he collected by and about Sterling M. McMurrin. Documents related to Madsen's research for the manuscript are located in boxes 63 through 65. The outlines, rough drafts, and typescripts which comprise Madsen's work on the manuscript are located in box 66. This box only contains manuscript material for Madsen's work. Researchers interested in the development of the preface and biography should consult the Sterling M. McMurrin Papers (Ms 32) and the Everett L. Cooley Papers (Accn 73). The Cooley Papers also contain files related to this manuscript which were photocopied from the papers of B. H. Roberts (Ms 106). Box 67 contains reader comments and revisions for various versions of the manuscript. The Dick Wentworth and Alfred Bush comments found in folders 7 and 8 of that box refer to the Roberts manuscript as it appears in the Everett L. Cooley Papers. Following the manuscript material are the book reviews, some information on the subsequent controversy, and the manuscript for Madsen's portion of the joint Madsen-McMurrin "Reply to John W. Welch and Truman G. Madsen," which was delivered before the Algie Ballif Society shortly after publication of the Roberts book. (For more information on this organization, see the Algie Ballif Women's Forum Records, Ms 545.) The articles laying out the Welch-Madsen position, published by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS), are located in box 69, folders 24-27. Box 68 contains manuscripts for Madsen's 1986 lecture at the Hinckley Institute's "Books and Banter" series (folders 1-3), his participation on the panel at the Marriott Library's "Sunday Afternoon at the Marriott" series in 1990 (folders 4-9), and his 1993 Dialogue article. The drafts of the speeches and articles written in conjunction with this book have been labeled with letters of the alphabet. Also included are the manuscript materials for the second edition of the book, issued by Signature Books in 1992, and Madsen's files on academic freedom at Brigham Young University and LDS Church excommunications, along with unpublished papers Madsen wrote on both topics in 1993. Box 69 contains articles collected by Madsen in conjunction with his work on the Roberts book and on topics related to the LDS Church.

This section contains documents associated with Madsen's book The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre (University of Utah Press, 1985). In addition to general information on Indian-white conflict in the last half of the nineteenth century, this section contains descriptions of Indian attacks on wagon trains and farming communities, attacks by white soldiers on Indian camps, and an account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Madsen's research files are located in boxes 70 through 75 and in the first 8 folders of box 76. Typical of the documents found here are notes on and photocopies of published and unpublished books, articles, reports, theses and dissertations, biographies, family histories, personal reminiscences, speeches, diaries, letters, and newspaper articles. Primary and secondary materials and published and unpublished documents are interspersed with Madsen's handwritten notes. This material is arranged in chronological order according to the event being described. Madsen also prepared yearly chronological lists of secondary material in order of publication date, which allows a researcher to follow the interpretive thread of descriptions of the events of January 1863, as battle or massacre. These documents are located in the first folder for each year, and are indexed as "bibliographic notes" under the title of this manuscript. Madsen's original folder titles have been retained. Documents in this section have been indexed either under "Bear River, battle of" or "Bear River Massacre," depending upon how the author of the document referred to the event. Manuscript drafts follow the research material and are located in boxes 76 through 78. The first, handwritten draft, entitled "The Bear River Massacre: Conflict in Shoshoni Country," is followed by revision drafts in which the massacre is contextualized within the larger framework of the "Shoshoni frontier." Reviews and correspondence follow the manuscripts. The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre provided much of the historical underpinning for the report of the National Park Service recommending that the site be awarded status as a national landmark. Documents pertaining to Madsen's participation in that effort are located in box 79, along with documents relative to Madsen's exposure of the fictitious "Almo Massacre."

As the leader of a small band of Indians who aggressively resisted the cultural changes brought about by white contact, Chief Pocatello appeared time and again in accounts of white settlement of the culture area of the Northwestern Shoshone, yet never in enough detail to figure prominently in earlier Madsen works. Some time in the early 1980s Madsen recognized that his research files on Pocatello contained enough information to warrant a biography, and he began work on Chief Pocatello: The "White Plume" (University of Utah Press, 1986). This volume developed over an academic lifetime, and reflects earlier Madsen themes--the effects of white settlement on food sources that supported the nomadic, hunter-gatherer Shoshone bands, the deadly effect that Mormon-Gentile conflict had on white perceptions of Indian culture, and the consequences to the Shoshone of the carving out of successive transportation frontier across Shoshone lands. The core of Madsen's research files are probably located in box 80, which contains documents which specifically mention Pocatello. Other source documents, arranged chronologically, follow in boxes 81 and 82. Typically, these boxes contain photocopies of letters, newspaper stories, published debates, official reports, and traveler's tales. Information on Fort Hall Indian Reservation and the associated Indian Agency can be found in box 82. Manuscripts in this section have been labeled numerically according to the order in which they appear to have been written. The rough draft for this manuscript is located in Box 83, followed by manuscript draft no.1, which is the closest to Madsen's original. There is no prologue and the introduction is substantially different from the published version. This draft was circulated among several readers, most notably Merle Wells and Charles S. Peterson. In draft no. 2, a prologue appears containing Pocatello's mother's story, moved forward from chapter one. Material describing Pocatello's emergence from obscurity and the effects of white emigration on the Shoshone are moved from page 59 of the first draft to the introduction. Draft no.3 is a photocopy of draft no. 2 with extensive reader's notes, probably penned by Peterson. Draft 3B consists of excerpts from another photocopy of draft no. 2 with a different reader's notes. These comments focus generally on spelling and word usage. This draft is incomplete. Manuscript pages without notation were discarded. Documents associated with the publication of this book, including reviews and correspondence, are located in box 84, folders 18-21.

This section contains documents related to Exploring the Great Salt Lake: The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50 (University of Utah Press, 1989), Madsen's compilation of all documents associated with the nineteenth-century military survey of the Great Salt Lake. This project had originally been undertaken by Dale Morgan, who discovered the official expedition journals in the National Archives in 1944. Morgan offered to bring the documents together and provide supplementary biographical information for publication in the four-volume 1945 edition of the Utah Historical Quarterly, but the project never reached fruition. Madsen discovered Morgan's files in the Bancroft Library while researching the John Hudson book and recognized the historical value of the project. With the Utah statehood centennial and the expedition sesquicentennial approaching, the University of Utah Press agreed that the timing was right for this venture. Principle members of the Stansbury party were Captain Stansbury himself, in command; Lieutenant John Williams Gunnison, an Episcopalian surveyor with a strong religious bent; John Hudson, a young English artist and draftsman; and Albert Carrington, Brigham Young's private secretary, whose presence on the crew ensured Young's support. For further information on Carrington, see the Albert Carrington Papers (Ms 549).

Madsen's files for this manuscript begin with research-related correspondence and maps used to envision the routes discussed on lesser-known portions of the expedition. Folders 12-22 of box 85, labeled "Gunnison Journals," contain supplementary material relative to the journals rather than the journals themselves. Folders 19-22, "Carrington Journals," contain photocopies of an original diary in the possession of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, the 1947 version published by that organization, and supplementary biographical material. Folder 25, "Stansbury Journals," contains biographical information and documents pertaining to Stansbury's career with the topographical engineers. Box 86 contains research material used to prepare footnotes for the various legs of the journey outward, the lake survey and side-trips, and the return to Washington D. C. Here Madsen has replicated the organizational scheme he used in editing the John Hudson journals, filing source material according to where the topic under consideration was mentioned by the travelers. Folders 15-17, "James Blake, M. D." and "Odometer," were added later, and contain new information used to amplify Madsen's interpretation of the journey. This material was utilized in Madsen's 1991 speech before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "Dr. James Blake, Scientist," which is located in box 96, folders 34-35. The research materials used to prepare footnotes and appendices on the flora and fauna of the great plains begins in box 86, folder 28, and continues through box 87, folder 9. Folders 10-26 of that box contain information on the two nineteenth-century publications which came out of the expedition: Stansbury's Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake and Gunnison's The Mormons. Folders 21-26 also contain information on Stansbury's career at the topographical engineers.

Material photocopied by Madsen from the Dale L. Morgan Papers (in the possession of the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley) is located in boxes 88 and 89. These materials include photocopies of original documents, transcripts prepared by Morgan, and selected items from Morgan's research and correspondence. The Marriott Library has a microfilm copy of the entire Morgan collection, which is available to researchers (Ms 560). Madsen's index to the relevant Morgan documents is located in box 88, folder 10. Many of the Morgan documents have been placed with the route files in box 86. Boxes 90 through 92 contain photocopies of the 28 official journals and field notebooks of the Stansbury expedition that Madsen obtained from the National Archives. These documents are described and summarized by Madsen in his essay on editorial methods following the introduction to the Stansbury book, and have been filed according to the order established by Madsen at that time. These journals and notebooks are those referred to by Madsen in his introductory essay as the "Stansbury Collection at the Marriott Library." The Gunnison letters contain many references to nineteenth-century religious thought (including descriptions of "knockings" and other expressions of spiritualism) excised by Madsen, which may be of interest to researchers. The manuscripts for this project begin in box 92, folder 9 and continue through box 95, folder 26. Reviews for Exploring the Great Salt Lake are located in box 96, folder 27, followed by various drafts and printed versions of speeches and articles on related topics produced by Madsen between 1987 and 1991.

This section contains Madsen's files for Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor (University of Utah Press, 1990). Perhaps best known for his role in the Bear River Massacre, Connor was also a general contractor, politician, mining entrepreneur, businessman, newspaper publisher, and military overseer of Mormon activities in the Salt Lake valley. Madsen's research files begin with general biographical information on Connor, found in box 97, folders 8 through 26, and box 98, folders 1 through 4. Research on Connor's roots in Ireland and New York, and on his early military career is located in boxes 98 and 99. Madsen followed his usual pattern of filing documents chronologically with primary and secondary sources interspersed. For this project, he also subdivided his files into general files, files dealing with military affairs, Mormon affairs, and with mining. Madsen's folder titles have been retained. Boxes 99 through 110 consist of chronological files dating from 1850 to 1889. These files cover Connor's military, political and mining activities, as well as documents used to place Connor in the context of his times. Typically, these files contain correspondence, military reports and rosters, newspaper accounts of Connor and of military affairs, and published and unpublished papers on topics related to mining, military and political affairs, and published reports by various government officials. There are five drafts of this manuscript, located in boxes 112 through 116. Correspondence relating to publication of the book, reviews, and two short pieces on Connor by Madsen are located in box 117.

This series contains miscellaneous maps used as illustrations in Madsen's published works. Folder 1 contains hand-drawn maps on onion-skin paper. Folder 2 contains transparencies. Folders 3-7 contain oversize maps, some of which are mounted for display.

This section contains articles written between 1920 and 1996 which were of general interest to Madsen. Most date from the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of this section consists of articles concerning religion, especially the history and doctrine of the LDS Church. Also included are articles on topics of interest to historians of the American West. Published and unpublished articles by local authors on regional history are included as well. The scattered articles concerning Native Americans and women are generally the work of former Madsen students. Articles in this section are organized alphabetically by author and, where dates are given, chronologically there under.