TY - BOOK AU - Van Wagoner,Richard S. TI - Mormon polygamy: a history SN - 0941214796 AV - BX8641 .V36 1989 U1 - 289.3 20 PY - 1989/// CY - Salt Lake City, USA PB - Signature Books KW - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints KW - History KW - Polygamy KW - United States KW - Mormon Church N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-244) and index; The "restoration of all things" -- Stirrings in Nauvoo -- "Protecting the Lord's anointed" -- Polyandry - a test? -- "If a man espouse a virgin" -- The Nauvoo Expositor and martyrdom -- Following the brethren -- Announcing the practice -- Women in polygamy -- "Twin relics of barbarism" -- "Prisoners for conscience's sake" -- Paving the way to statehood -- The Wilford Woodruff manifesto -- Interpreting Woodruff -- Post-manifesto polygamy -- Spotlighting the church - the Smoot hearings -- Founding Mormon fundamentalism -- Crusades against the principle -- Polygamists in the news ER -