John is  teaching the following classes this semester:

History 2700

History 3850

History 4600

History 4710

USU 1300

Biography Information

Education:   

M.A. in U.S. and Western History from Brigham Young University, 1989.  [Graduate GPA Thesis, Antoine Robidoux and the Fur Trade of the Uintah Basin, 1824-1844.
B.A. in history from Brigham Young University, 1987.
A.S. Dixie College, St. George, Utah, 1986.

Professional Experience:

Present    At present my appointment is Senior Lecturer in History.

1996 - 2003    Beginning July 1, 1996, I took a full-time appointment as an Assistant Professor of History at the Uintah Basin Branch Campus..

1999 - 2001    In addition to my duties as a history professor, starting fall of 1999 through spring 2001, I  served on the management team for USU-UBBC as Director of Faculty Affairs.  The Management Team consists of the Exec. Director, Director of Student Services, Director of Faculty Affairs, and the Business Controller.   I also served as the Department Leader for the History Department at USU-UBBC.

1993-1996    Student Services Director/ History Instructor

1988-1993:    History Instructor /Student Advisor/ Administrative Assistant at Utah State University, Uintah Basin Branch Campus.  I taught the 1988-89 academic year on a one year contract and then in August 1989, I started as student advisor and history instructor.

1986-87:    Teaching and research assistant for both the History and Church History departments at Brigham Young  University  1987-89.   Researched the following topics:  William W. Phelps -- Early Mormon Convert and Pioneer; Interpretations of plural marriage, Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 before and after the 1890 Manifesto banning such practice by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; the role of Navajo Scouts during the Apache Wars; Navajo/Governmental relations at the turn of the century.
 
Trails West Trips:

2003 Texas Independence and the Old Chisom Trail
2002 California Gold Rush.
2001 Mt. Man rendezvous and Indian Battle sites.
2000 The Dominguez/Escalante Route
1999 The Oregon Trail and the Lewis and Clark Route
1998 Indian Battle Sites

Books:

Barton, John D. A History of Duchesne County (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1998).

Irving, Kathlene and Barton, John D., From Tabernacle to Temple - The Story of the Vernal Utah Temple (Vernal, Ut.: S.T. Tabernacle, 1998).

Barton, John D., Buckskin Entrepreneur -- Antoine Robidoux and the Fur Trade In the Uinta Basin, 1824-1844, (Vernal, Utah: Oakfield Press, 1996).

Refereed Articles:

Barton, John D. and Barton, Candace M., "Jurisdiction of Ute Lands," American Indian Law Review, (XXVI No, 1, 2001-02) 133 - 146.

Barton, John D. , "The Common Touch: Why Cassidy Was Successful Then and Remembered Now," Blue Mountain Shadows, 15 (Summer 1995), 2 - 6

Barton, John D., "Antoine Robidoux -- Buckskin Entrepreneur," The Outlaw Trail Journal, 3 and 4 (Summer/Fall 1993 and Winter/Spring 1994), 35-44.

Barton, John D., "Fort Robidoux,"Utah History Encyclopedia, edited by Allan Kent Powell,  (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press 1994), 76.

Barton, John D., "Fort Davy Crockett,"Utah History Encyclopedia, edited by Allan Kent Powell,  (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press 1994),148 - 149.

Barton, John D., "Butch Cassidy,"Utah History Encyclopedia, edited by Allan Kent Powell,  (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press 1994),198 - 199.

Barton, John D., "Outlaws In Utah,"Utah History Encyclopedia, edited by Allan Kent Powell,  (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press 1994), 201.

Barton, John D. , "Roosevelt,"Utah History Encyclopedia, edited by Allan Kent Powell,  (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press 1994),403 - 404.

Barton, John D. , "Duchesne"Utah History Encyclopedia, edited by Allan Kent Powell,  (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press 1994), 474.

Barton, John D., "Fort Uintah and the Reed Trading Post," Montana; Magazine of Western History,  1 (Winter 1993), 50-57.   

Barton, John D., "Outlaws, Lawmen, Law-abiding Citizens, and Mormons,"     The Outlaw Trail Journal, 1 (Summer 1991), 11-16.
   
Book Reviews:

Barton, John D., The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed Blood Utes, An Advocate's Chronicle. Parker M. Nielson.  (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press: 1998). Utah Historical Quarterly.

Barton, John D., A Rendezvous Reader: Tall, Tangled and True Tales of the Mountain Men, 1805-1850. Edited by James H. Maguire, Peter Wild, and Donald Barclay.  (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997).  Reviewed for Utah Historical Quarterly 66 (Spring 1998), 188-189.

Barton, John D., The Tall Texan - The Story of Ben Kilpatrick (Deer Lodge, Montana: Trail Dust Publishing Inc., 1996), Reviewed for "The Outlaw Trail Journal" 1 (Winter/Spring 1996), 47.
 
Barton, John D., Digging Up Butch and Sundance, by Anne Meadows, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), Reviewed for "The Outlaw Trail Journal" 2 (Summer/Fall 1994), 42.

Barton, John D., Ann Bassett alias Etta Place, by Doris K. Burton, (Vernal, Utah: Burton Enterprises, 1992). Reviewed for "The Outlaw Trail Journal" 1 (Winter/Spring 1993), 46.

Barton, John D., In The Company Of Cowboys, by Howard E. Greager, (New York: Vintage Press, Inc., 1990). Reviewed for "The Outlaw Trail Journal" 2 (Summer/Fall 1992), 48.     

Barton, John D., Astoria and Empire, by James P. Ronda.  (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990).  Reviewed for "Utah Historical Quarterly" 59 (Winter 1991): 95, 96.

Founding Editor of The Outlaw Trail Journal, Vol. 1 (Summer/Fall 1991), Vol. 2  (Winter/Spring 1992), Vol. 1 (Summer/Fall 1992), Vol. 2 (Winter/Spring 1993). 

Contributions published in other works:

"Mining in the Uintah Basin," Chapter in Mining in Utah, accepted for publication by Utah State University Press.

Guest Editor, Blue Mountain Shadows, (Summer 1995) A journal of history of the Four Corners region of Utah.

Jack D. Barton, personal interview taken by John D. Barton, published in Utah Remembers W.W. II, by Kent Powell.  (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1991).

Works in Progress:

Mountain Men and Utes 1824 - 1844.  This text is under revision to be sent to USU
Press or Oklahoma Press for possible publication.

"The Timpangoas Band: Ute or Shoshone?" this article will be submitted to Utah Historical Quarterly for possible publication.

Professional Presentations:

Barton, John D., presented on "Jurisdiction of Ute Lands," Uintah Basin Research Conference, March 2003, Roosevelt, Utah.

Barton, John D., Presented a lecture on Utah's Outlaws and their successes at the Western Outlaw/Lawmen History Association's annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 1991.

Barton, John D., Keynote Speaker for the annual convention for the National Outlaw/Lawmen History Association, Vernal, Utah, July 1992.

Service    Utah State History Board of Directors: This is a four year appointment that began in summer 2004.  I was appointed by Governor Walker to serve in this position.

Public Lectures: 

Presented critical review and led discussion groups for The Book Group, part of the Utah Endowment of the Humanities.  The books included Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya, People of the Valley by Frank Waters, and Billy the Kid, A Short and Violent Life by Robert Utley.  Mormon Country by Wallace Stegner, Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, The Virginian by Owen Wisster.
    
1998-99 Served on the Speakers Bureau for the Utah Endowment of the Humanities. Approved topics: "Ute Indians" and "Twentieth Century Homesteaders."

1998-99 Again serving on the Speakers Bureau for the Utah Endowment of the Humanities with approved topics of "The Utes: History, Culture, Racial Perspectives" and "Twentieth Century Pioneers - Homesteading in the Uinta Basin 1905."

1992-1993 served on the Speakers Bureau for the Utah Endowment of the Humanities.  Approved topics for lectures are "Utah's Mountain Men," and "Outlaws and Outlaw Myths."  During this two year period I presented 38 lectures throughout all parts of the state to History Associations. Library Groups, Discussion Groups, etc.


Recognitions and Awards:

2004 Innovations in Teaching Award at the annual Continuing Education Awards Banquet.

2001 Recognition for service as Director of Faculty Affairs and member of the Management Team for Utah State University Uintah Basin.

1999 Teacher of the Year, USU-UBBC.

1998 Recognition for outstanding teacher on the COM/NET system of distance education.

1992 Merit Award from the Utah Humanities Council for the Outlaw Trail History Project.

1988 Awarded a Western History Research Fellowship through the Redd Center of Western Studies, Brigham Young University.