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Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to permanently e
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Pages: 487
Authors: M. S. Pearsall
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-20 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America "A richly sourced, elegantly written, and st
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Pages: 169
Authors: Sarah M. S. Pearsall
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"This VSI offers a broad global and temporal history of polygamy and its importance in a range of settings. Polygamy, or plural marriage, has been an accepted f
The Polygamy Question
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Pages: 269
Authors: Janet Bennion
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-01 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado

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The practice of polygamy occupies a unique place in North American history and has had a profound effect on its legal and social development. The Polygamy Quest
Solemn Covenant
Language: en
Pages: 498
Authors: B. Carmon Hardy
Categories: Latter Day Saint churches
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In his famous Manifesto of 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff called for an end to the more than fifty-year practice of polygamy. Fifteen years late