Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report

1994: George D Smith, “Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 27 No. 1 (1994): 1–72.

Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.