Jay H. Buckley

Jay H. Buckley (PhD, Nebraska), an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western History at Brigham Young University.

Buckley is author of the award-winning _William Clark: Indian Diplomat_ (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). He also wrote _A Golden Jubilee History: The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU, 1972-2022_ (Provo, UT: Charles Redd Center, 2022). Other peer-reviewed, co-authored books include: _By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis_ (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006); _Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West_ (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2012); _Great Plains Forts_ (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023); _The Life and Adventures of Mr. Eli Wiggill: South African 1820 Settler, Wesleyan Missionary, and Latter-day Saint_ (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2024); _Assessing the Career of Historian Thomas G. Alexander_ (Provo, UT: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 2024); _Proceedings of the 2024 National Fur Trade Symposium: 1824 The Eve of Rendezvous_ Pinedale, WY: Museum of the Mountain Man, 2025).

Co-authored books in public history, local history, pedagogical history, and historical reference include: _Orem_ [Utah] (Arcadia Publishing [Images of America], 2010); _Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier_ (Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press, 2015); _Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents_ (ABC-CLIO, 2016); _Explorers of the American East: Mapping the World through Primary Documents_ (ABC-CLIO, 2018).

Buckley served as President of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation (2011-12), which provides national leadership on scholarship, education, and conservation pertaining to the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. His teaching and research specialties include the fur trade, Lewis & Clark, exploration & migration, Indian-white relations, the South African frontier, and other western themes.

Current Book Projects: The Sheep Industry in Utah and the Intermountain West; Lewis & Clark: Facts and Fictions (New York: Bloomsbury/ABC-CLIO).