Will Bagley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Will Bagley
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	May 27, 1950(1950-05-27)
Age	74
Birthplace	Salt Lake City
Country	United States
Birth City	Utah
Horoscope	Gemini

Will Bagley Biography

Will Bagley is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on May 27, 1950 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

According to Robert M. Utley, “[e]ver since 1857, the Mormon Church has vehemently exempted itself and Brigham Young from any complicity in this crime against humanity. Church-approved histories embrace this interpretation when they mention it at all. The official church historians and custodians of the massive church archives have carefully avoided the issue. Parts of the archives have been ‘lost,’ restricted, sanitized, and even manufactured. Mormon historians who probe beyond the prescribed limits face isolation at best, excommunication at worst. … Such is the prospect for Will Bagley. … Will Bagley has made a major contribution to western American history. Already, the church counterattack has begun. … He is likely to take some painful personal hits, but his scholarship will withstand the professedly scholarly hits.”

William Grant Bagley was born to Lawrence Miles Bagley and Margene Bailey Bagley on May 27, 1950 in Salt Lake City. 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 and they are the uncles of professional surfer Dusty Payne. Bagley attended Brigham Young University in 1967–68, and then he transferred to University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), where he obtained his B.A. in History in 1971. At Santa Cruz Bagley studied writing with Page Stegner and history with John Dizikes. He graduated from UCSC between Richard White and Patty Limerick, two of the leading lights of the “New Western History.” While at UCSC he received the California State Scholar and President’s Scholar awards. He considers an integral part of his education a trip he took in 1969, on a homemade raft built of framing lumber and barrels, down the Mississippi River from Rock Island, Illinois to New Orleans. After graduation he spent three years in North Carolina studying the local Bluegrass music and culture, and playing in bands.

Will Bagley Net Worth

Will Bagley is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Will Bagley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The first installment, So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848, appeared in 2010. It won several awards, and The Atlantic selected it as its Editor’s Choice in September 2011.

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As a member of the Utah Speakers Bureau, Will Bagley has made dozens of presentations throughout the state. He has given academic papers at the annual conventions of the Western History Association, the Mormon History Association, Sunstone Magazine, the Oregon-California Trails Association, the Communal Studies Association, and the Center for Studies on New Religions. He participated in Claremont McKenna College’s “The American West” lecture series. Mr. Bagley was a Research Associate at Yale University’s Beinecke Library in 2000 and was the library’s Archibald Hanna Jr. Fellow in American history in 2009. During the 2008 academic year, he and author Stephen Trimble served as Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellows at the University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center. He has worked as a historical consultant for National Geographic magazine, the National Park Service, the Wyoming State Historical Preservation Office, the Nevada Humanities Council, and for more than a dozen documentary films including A&E Television’s Mountain Meadows Massacre and The Mormon Rebellion, and PBS’s, The Mormons. He has worked on historical interpretive design for the Bureau of Land Management.

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With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, the second volume, appeared in 2012.”As usual, Bagley delivers hard truths in shimmering prose, lifting the veil of romance that surrounds so much of the American West,” The Salt Lake Tribune commented shortly after its release. “It’s no secret that those who packed up their life’s belongings for a new shot at life on the frontier suffered and struggled, but Bagley reveals it all through meticulous research that gives it depth and meaning.”