Will bagley biography

William Grant Bagley (May 27, 1950 – September 28, 2021) was a historian specializing in the history of the Western United States and the American Old West.
William Grant Bagley was a historian specializing in the history of the Western United States and the American Old West.
Bagley is a historian who has published five books and currently resides in Salt Lake City.

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Will Bagley

American historian (1950–2021)

William Grant Bagley (May 27, 1950 – September 28, 2021) was a historian specializing in the history of the Western United States and the American Old West. Bagley wrote about the fur trade, overland emigration, American Indians, military history, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and Utah and the Mormons.

Biography

William Grant Bagley was born to Lawrence Miles Bagley and Margene Bailey Bagley on May 27, 1950, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His ancestors came from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and Germany. He was a descendant of the fifth Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, John Webster. His paternal great grandfather was a Mormon pioneer from New Brunswick, Canada. From the age of nine he was raised in Oceanside, California, where his father was a long-serving mayor in the 1980s. His younger brother Pat Bagley became the notable Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist^[1] and they are the uncles of professional surfer Dusty Payne. Bagley attended Brigham Young University in 1967–68, and then he t

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Will Bagley

This web page is dedicated to the accomplishments of WIll Bagley and his dealings with the Mormon Church.

Who is Will Bagley?

Will Bagley is an author, historian and current Latter-day Saint & MT contributor.

Biography

Will Bagley, who David Roberts called “that sharpest of all thorns in the side of the Mormon historical establishment,” has written more than twenty books on overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, the invention of digital search technology, and the Mormons. Born in Utah, he attended Brigham Young University and was a President's Scholar at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studied writing with Page Stegner and history with John Dizikes. He has rafted down the Mississippi River, performed country music from Wyoming to Nevada, and in 1979 recorded a long-playing album, “The Legend of Jesse James.” Between 2000 and 2004, the Sunday Salt Lake Tribune published more than 200 of his columns and articles. His Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

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William Chandler Bagley (March 15, 1874 – July 1, 1946), was an Americaneducator and editor. A critic of pragmatism and progressive education, he advocated educational "essentialism." Bagley published chiefly on the topics of teacher education, curriculum, philosophy of education, and educational psychology. His experience as teacher and administrator of public schools laid a strong practical foundation for his theoretical formulations regarding improvement in public education. Bagley promoted a core of traditional subjects as essential to a good education, the goal of which is the development of good citizens who will be useful to society. He believed this education should be available to all, and opposed the use of standardized tests that were biased against minority groups. At a time when schools were moving toward progressive education, Bagley's views of the importance of maintaining the authority of the teacher and principal of the school, emphasizing the importance of obedience by students to such authority, provided a strong contrast to the egalitarian views o