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Articles by Will Bagley
Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
Brigham Young-between 1855 and 1865-glass negative-wet collodion-Brady-Handy Photograph Collection In September 11, 1857, 120 men, women and children—pioneers from Arkansas headed for California—were massacred after being promised safe passage through a Southern Utah valley known as Mountain Meadows.
History Haunts Nevada’s Byways
Since deep veins of silver and gold were discovered near the present-day Nevada towns of Virginia City and Dayton in the 1850s, the Silver State’s economy and growth has been driven greatly by the mining industry. Wyatt and Josie Earp and Wyatt’s brother Virgil followed the silver to both Tonapah and Goldfield, where the 20-mule wagon train (above) was leaving toward the mines in 1905.
History Haunts Nevada’s Byways
History haunts western Nevada, where the state’s highways cross the Great Basin and some of the most formidable geography in North America. The first Anglo explorers to traverse its stark mountains and salty playas included fur trade legends Jedediah Smith, Joseph R. Walker and Peter Skene Ogden, whose paths John C. Fremont followed behind his personal pathfinder, Kit Carson.
Independence Rock
Fifty million years ago, the peaks of the Granite Range rose in today's central Wyoming, and began the long geologic processes of exfoliation. Over time, the vast weight of the mountains caused them to sag into the earth's crust, and about 15 million years ago, wind-blown sand smoothed and rounded their summits. Wind and weather eventually exposed an ancient peak, creating one of America's great landmarks.
Big Trouble: The Legacy of Mountain Meadows
A bloody attack on an emigrant wagon train that occurred in a remote location in southern Utah Territory 150 years ago continues to raise disturbing questions and haunt the Mormon Church. At dawn on Monday, September 7, 1857, Major John D. Lee of the Nauvoo Legion, Utah’s territorial militia, led a ragtag band of 60 or 70 Latter-day Saints, better known as Mormons, and a few Indian freebooters in an assault on a wagon train from Arkansas.
Here Be Dragons | HistoryNet
John Wesley Powell’s Colorado River Exploring Expedition completed its rapids-defying Grand Canyon passage 140 years ago, but the disappearance of three members remains a mystery. The explorers were in rough shape on August 27, 1869, when they reached the rapid where Precambrian Vishnu schist flanked the lowest thousand feet of the twisting, mile-deep canyon wall.
Letter: Rep. Stewart now just another member of the crackpot cospiracy party
Can we all agree that Chris Stewart is too dumb to sit on the House Intelligence Committee? He looks awful wearing the tinfoil hat his comment about President Dangerfield evokes. His quote in Taylor Anderson’s Jan. 24 article about “the politicalization of agencies like the FBI, the Department of Justice and frankly, in my opinion, worst of all, the CIA” being “turned into political operatives” shows him to be a mindless member of GOP crackpot conspiracy caucus.
Wild West Review: So Rugged and Mountainous | HistoryNet
So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California 1812–1848 by Will Bagley, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2010, $45. “A tide of immigration appears to be moving this way rapidly,” Narcissa Whitman wrote her mother in the spring of 1840.
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