My mother's people: New England stock -- My father's people: roots in Wales, Scotland, and Denmark -- Dad, mother, and five little Madsens -- Growing up with callouses -- Missionary to the mountaineers -- "Building" the church in North Carolina -- Utah student, Idaho teacher, 1936-38 -- Graduate school at Berkeley and the shipyards of World War II, 1939-43 -- Infantry rifleman, 1943-45 -- Third Army Historian in Germany, 1945-46 -- Ph.D. and new professor, Berkeley and Brigham Young University, 1946-51 -- My years at Wilkinson's BYU, 1951-54 -- The smell of sawdust, 1954-61 -- Utah State University and the Peace Corps, 1961-65 -- At the University of Utah: Dean and Deputy Academic Vice President, 1965-67 -- Administrative Vice President, 1967-71 -- Librarian and History Chair, 1971-75 -- The smell of chalk dust and pencil shavings, 1975-84 -- An active retirement, 1984-90 -- A writer at work.
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