Ronald W. Walker
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| Born | Ronald Warren Walker October 12, 1939[1] |
| Died | May 9, 2016 (aged 76)[1] |
| Education | Brigham Young University (B.S., M.A.) Stanford University University of Utah (PhD) |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | Brigham Young University (1980– ) |
| Spouse | Nelani Midgley Walker |
Ronald Warren Walker (1939 – May 9, 2016) was an American historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) and president of the Mormon History Association. His work, acclaimed by the Mormon History Association, dealt with the Godbeites, the Utah War, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre, among other topics.
Biography
Walker was born in Missoula, Montana, and raised in Iowa and the San Joaquin Valley of California. He graduated from high school in Bakersfield, California.[2][3]
Walker attended BYU, where he received a
During his career, Walker wrote or edited eight books and dozens of journal articles including Massacre at Mountain Meadows, Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young. At the time of his death on May 9, 2016, Walker was working on a biography on Brigham Young and a multi-volume work on Heber J. Grant. Of his death, LDS Church historian Richard E. Turley stated, "[Mormon and Utah history] have lost one of their finest and most nuanced narrators."[3] Benjamin E. Park stated that Walker's expertise was in analyzing social dynamics and taking into account multiple viewpoints, especially in Mountain Meadows Massacre, which Park described as a "watershed in the LDS Church's historical conscience."[7] Walkers's work on the Utah War showed the politics, social contexts, and human flaws behind the conflict.[3][7]
Walker and his wife, Nelani Midgley, had seven children.[3]
Awards
Walker has received several awards from the Mormon History Association. He received the Leonard Arrington award for lifelong service as a historian in 1983. He received the best book award in 1999 for Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young and in 2009 with his co-authors for Mountain Meadows Massacre. He received the award for best bibliography in 2010, the best article award in 1989, 2003, 2004, and 2005, and an award for best manuscript submitted to the Journal of Mormon History in 1993. He received a special citation in 2001.[12] He received the Dale L. Morgan award for best article published in Utah Historical Quarterly.[10]
Writings
Walker was widely published in the field of Mormon history and historian
The following is a partial list of Walker's writings and publications:
- Walker, Ronald W. (1977). The Godbeite Protest in the Making of Modern Utah (dissertation). Salt Lake City, Utah: Department of History, University of Utah..
- Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young, Urbana, Illinois: ISBN 0-252-02378-1. (Republished by the University of Utah in 2009)
- Dant, Doris R. (1999), Nearly Everything Imaginable: The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers, Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, ISBN 978-0-8425-2397-4.
- ISBN 0-252-02565-2.
- Walker, Ronald W.; ISBN 0-252-02619-5.
- Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant as Businessman, Missionary and Apostle, vol. 43, ISBN 0-8425-2550-5.
- Neilson, Reid L.; Walker, Ronald W., eds. (2006), Reflections of a Mormon Historian: Leonard J. Arrington on the New Mormon History, Norman, Oklahoma: ISBN 0-87062-348-6.
- Walker, Ronald W.; ISBN 978-0-19-516034-5.
- Turley, Richard E. Jr.; Walker, Ronald W., eds. (2009), Mountain Meadows Massacre: The Andrew Jenson and David H. Morris Collections, Provo, Utah: ISBN 978-0-8425-2723-1.
References
- ^ a b "Ronald Warren Walker". Archived from the original on 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ Thurston, Morris A. "Ronald W. Walker". The Miller Eccles Study Group. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune (9 May 2016). "Historian Ronald Walker, who wrote with candor and grace about Mountain Meadows and other Mormon moments, dies". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ "College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences". Undergraduate Catalog 1997-98. Brigham Young University. 1997. Archived from the original on 2004-07-01. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-252-02381-1. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "The Godbeite protest in the making of modern Utah / by Ronald Warren Walker". J. Willard Marriott Library & S.J. Quinney Law Library catalogs. University of Utah. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ a b c d "In Memoriam: Ronald W. Walker, 1939-2016". The Juvenile Instructor. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- OCLC 37260862.
- ^ Walker, Ronald W. (Spring 1993). "Seeking the "Remnant": The Native American During the Joseph Smith Period" (PDF). Journal of Mormon History. 19 (1): 2.
- ^ a b "Authors". The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ "Past MHA Presidents". Mormon History Association. Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "Past Awards | Mormon History Association". Retrieved 2020-07-28.
External links
- Ronald W. Walker at the MLCA Database
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