The last called Mormon colonization : polygamy, kinship, and wealth in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin /

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"In this manuscript, historian John Gary Maxwell explores the unique history of a Mormon colony founded in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin in 1900. Those who founded and settled the colony were seeking refuge from anti- polygamy laws and sentiments that for almost twenty years had dominated Utah...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maxwell, John Gary, 1933- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2022]
Temas:
Latter Day Saint churches > Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.) > History.
Polygamy > Religious aspects > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Polygamie > Aspect religieux > Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours.
Colonies
Mormon Church
Polygamy > Religious aspects > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.) > History.
Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.) > Colonies.
Bighorn, Bassin (Mont. et Wyom.) > Histoire.
Bighorn, Bassin (Mont. et Wyom.) > Colonies.
United States > Bighorn Basin
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Primer on Latter-Day Saint polygamy
  • Idealists among the pragmatists
  • The Big Horn Basin as frontier
  • Dispossession and Elimination
  • Penury, depression, and overpopulation
  • Five Woodruff men
  • Whether "called" or volunteered, plans and progress follow
  • Treks, trials, and finances
  • Promises and accomplishments
  • An Innocent in the Big Horn Basin?
  • Polygamy among the colonists and its residual
  • A Platform for polygamy's survival.

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