Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shipp closed her un published autobiography with the words, “Great minds are they who suffered not in vain. . . . I do not feel my spirit great, but oh, I have…
The world’s living religions began with the lives and teachings of charismatic leaders such as Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muham mad. Each won a following by the force of his character, the witness of…
This not existing is despicable.” Such was the outcry of a man who i came to the painful realization that he was so immersed in and ab sorbed by a field of forces and influences…
I’d ridden this way a hundred times,
Up Monday Town along the fence
Dividing wheat from perennial sage
Herding cattle to summer grazing
The scene was written
In advance,
Rehearsed as often
As the days of waiting
Would allow.
Thelm, the man is standing in his own way. If only he would get the vision of this thing. . . . See the potential, the tremendous opportunities. If he’d just drop those skeptical blinders…
Hyrum Black had three wives. All of the people up and down Tudor Avenue knew that. In fact, I suppose all of the people in Salt Lake City knew that there were polygamists among us,…
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 108–116
Embry describes the role that polygamy played in the forming of Cardston Canada, both Pre-Manifesto and Post Manifesto.
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 99–107
An analysis of what the individual wives’ roles are in the 19th century among plural marriages. Embry and Bradley make the argument that the daughters in a polygamous relationship pay attention to how their own mom is doing, which determines whether or not when they are older they enter into a polygamous relationship.
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 84–98
Mehr shares stories of polygamy in late 19th century and early 20th century. He especially focused on LDS women’s opinions of polygamy when they entered into polygamous relationsips.