Polygamy on the Pedernales Lyman Wight's Mormon Village in Antebellum Texas
In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the "Wild Ram of Texas," Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, before his murde...
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Main Author: | Johnson, Melvin C (auth) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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University Press of Colorado
2006
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