Summary

Well-documented treatment on the development of the doctrine and practice of plural marriage in Mormonism.

Contents

Chapter

1. The "Restoration of All Things"
2. Stirrings in Nauvoo
3. "Protecting the Lord's Anointed"
4. Polyandry—A Test?
5. "If a Man Espouse a Virgin"
6. The Nauvoo Expositor and Martyrdom
7. Following the Brethren
8. Announcing the Practice
9. Women in Polygamy
10. "Twin Relics of Barbarism"
11. "Prisoners for Conscience's Sake"
12. Paving the Way to Statehood
13. The Wilford Woodruff Manifesto
14. Interpreting Woodruff
15. Post-Manifesto Polygamy
16. Spotlighting the Church—The Smoot Hearings
17. Founding Mormon Fundamentalism
18. Crusades Against the Principle
19. Polygamists in the News