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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, John Gary, 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint churches--Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.)--History.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Polygamy.

Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.)--History.

Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.).

Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.)--Colonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, [2022]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64769-060-9

OCLC:

1321800449