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The last called Mormon colony [electronic resource] : polygamy, kinship, and wealth in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin / John Gary Maxwell

Author
Maxwell, John Gary, 1933-
Published
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2022]
Physical Description
pages cm
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Contents
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.
Summary
"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 culture and politics. Many in the colony's leadership were the sons of influential members of the church hierarchy, including Abraham Owen Woodruff, son of church president Wilford Woodruff"--
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ISBN
9781647690588 (cloth)
9781647690595 (cloth)
9781647690601 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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