Against the Grain - Memoirs of a Western Historian (Hardcover)

At the end of a distinguished career, this veteran historian turns an eye toward his final subject, himself. In doing so, he displays the candor that characterized his fifteen previous books. Among his achievements, Madsen was the first to unearth evidence of a massacre at the Bear River in Idaho (now a national monument) and was first to publish the writings of LDS leader B. H. Roberts questioning the Book of Mormon as literal history.