Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle

by Jessie L. Embry

Book Overview

Mormons and non-Mormons alike have their views of how polygamy was practiced by Latter-day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Embry has examined the participants themselves in order to understand how believers adapted to polygamy. Based on records and oral histories with husbands, wives, and children of Mormon polygamous households, this study explores the diverse experiences of individual families and stereotypes about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874802776
• ISBN13: 9780874802771
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.