Will Bagley - Honors

Honors

• 1991 Evans Manuscript Prize.
• Wagon Award 1993. Highest award for service to the Utah Crossroads Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA).
• 1997 Steven F. Christensen Best Documentary Award from the Mormon History Association.
• 1997 T. Edgar Lyon Award for Best Article of the Year from the Mormon History Association.
• 1998 First Place, Non-Fiction Book, and Publication Prize, Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition.
• 1999 National Certificate of Appreciation for special efforts in historic preservation, Oregon-California Trails Association.
• 2000 Steven F. Christensen Best Documentary Award from the Mormon History Association.
• 2001 Utah Military History Award from Utah State Historical Society.
• 2002 For the book Blood of the Prophets. Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competition Publication Prize, the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award, the Denver Public Library’s Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Westerners International’s Best Book Award, the John Whitmer Historical Association’s Smith-Petit Best Book Award, and the Western History Association’s John W. Caughey Prize for the year’s most distinguished book on the history of the American West.
• 2007 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition, Second Place, Biography, Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
• 2008 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition, Second Place, Novel, River
• 2008 Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.
• 2009 Archibald Hanna Jr. Fellowship in American History, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
• 2010 Merrill Mattes Award for Excellence in Writing, The Oregon-California Trails Association, with Rick Grunder, for “‘I Could Hardly Hold the Pen’: Phebe Ann Wooley Davis’s Hard Road to Utah and Back, 1864-1865.” Overland Journal 27:3 (Fall 2009).
• Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010, So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1840–1848.
• 2011 Western Heritage Award (The Wrangler), for So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1840–1848.
• The John Whitmer Historical Association’s Smith-Pettit Best Book Award in Latter Day Saint History, 2011, for David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, The Mormon Rebellion: America’s First Civil War, 1857-1858
• 2012 Spur, Best Western Nonfiction Historical, Western Writers of America for The Mormon Rebellion: America’s First Civil War, 1857-1858
• Utah State Historical Society, Amy Allen Price Military History Award, 2012, for David L. Bigler and Will Bagley,The Mormon Rebellion: America’s First Civil War, 1857-1858
• Utah State Historical Society, Smith-Pettit Best Documentary History, for Jeffrey Nicols, Polly Aird, and Will Bagley, Playing with Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West