William P. MacKinnon
WILLIAM P. MACKINNON {[email protected]} is an independent historian residing in Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. He is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the Utah State Historical Society and, during 2010–11 was president of the Mormon History Association. Since 1987, MacKinnon has been a frequent contributor to Dialogue through articles, essays, and book reviews. He is now completing the second volume of his documentary history of the Utah War, At Sword’s Point, for the University of Oklahoma Press’s Arthur H. Clark imprint. During 1962–68 MacKinnon served in squadrons of the U.S. Air Force and New York Air National Guard, a distant cousin, if not collateral descendant, of Illinois’s Nauvoo Legion.