Albert B. Reagan

Professor Albert B. Reagan (1871–1936) was an American author and historian of Native American history. He was professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University and documented Native American customs and folklore in New Mexico, Arizona, Minnesota, Colorado, Washington, and Utah, for tribes that include the Jemez people, Navajo people, Ojibwe people, Quileute people, and Ute people.

His extensive notes and research are kept in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University.

Career
Reagan published a book, Don Diego, through the Alice Harriman Company in New York in 1914.

He wrote two articles about the influenza epidemic of 1918, which are among the most widely cited primary sources about the impact of the epidemic among the Navajo. He had arrived in Navajo country in October 1918, after being appointed the Indian Service school administrator at Marsh Pass near Kayenta, Arizona.