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Daynes, Kathryn M.

More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

2001

[2002 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

More Wives Than One offers an in-depth look at the long-term interaction between belief and the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage, among the Latter-day Saints. Focusing on the small community of Manti, Utah, Kathryn M. Daynes provides an intimate view of how Mormon doctrine and Utah laws on marriage and divorce were applied in people's lives.

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"A Dogged Resolve" : The Doctrine and Decline of Mormon Plural Marriage, 1841–1890
A Faded Legacy : Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Assessing the Criticisms of Early-Age Latter-Day Saint Marriages
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
Before The Manifesto : The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Captivity, Adoption, Marriage and Identity : Native American Children in Mormon Homes, 1847-1900
Celestial Marriage (Eternal and Plural)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Civilizing the Ragged Edge : The Wives of Jacob Hambin
Courtship, Marriage, and Romantic Monogamy : Young Mormon Women's Diaries at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Danish, But Not Lutheran : The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850-1920
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
Demographic Limits of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Polygyny
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett women
Early Mormon Marriage, Family, and Networks of Kinship : Begets and horizontal Genealogy in the Case of the Later Cutlerites at Nauvoo
Early Mormon Patriarchy and the Paradoxes of Democratic Religiosity in Jacksonian America
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Eternal Progression : Mormonism and American Progressivism
Exceptionally Queer : Mormon Peculiarity and US Exceptionalism
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Explaining Mormonism: A Believing Skeptic's Guide to the Latter-day Saint Worldview
"Female Brethren" : Gender Dynamics in a Newly Integrated Missionary Force, 1898-1915
Finally Statehood! Utah's Struggles, 1849-1896
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857–1907
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
“I am not considered much of a polygamist”: Sarah Peterson Lund Writes to Her Missionary Husband
"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
“I cannot shake off my grief”: Eliza Shelton Keeler and the Challenges of Frontier Life
'Illicit Intercourse,' Plural Marriage, and the Nauvoo Stake High Council, 1840-1844
Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Ireland to Utah : Odyssey of the William Black and Jane Johnston Family
“I Would Not Risk My Salvation to Any Man” : Eliza R. Snow's Challenge to Salvific Coverture
Jan Shipps : A Social and Intellectual Portrait
Joseph Smith for President : The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Joseph Smith's Personal Polygamy
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Just How "Scandalous" is the Golden Plates Story? : Academic Discourse on the Origin of the Book of Mormon
Let's Talk About Polygamy
Letters on Mormon Polygamy and Progeny : Eliza R. Snow and Martin Luther Holbrook, 1866-1869
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Manifestos, Mixed Messages and Mexico : The Demise of Mainstream Mormon Polygamy
Manly Virtue : Defining Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Mapping the Extent of Plural Marriage in St. George, 1861-1880
Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France
Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism : The Generations After the Manifesto
Mormon cinema : Origins to 1956
Mormon Commitment Mechanisms
Mormon Europeans or European Mormons? : An "Afro-European" View on Religious Colonization
Mormon Gender in the Age of Polygamy
Mormon Gender in the Progressive Era
Mormonism
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormons Study "Abroad" : Brigham Young' Romance with American Higher Education, 1867-1877
Mormon Studies as an Academic Discipline
Mormontown : Collective Memories of a Cutlerite Colony in Iowa
Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture of Violence
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Polygamy : An Early American History
Polygamy’s Impact on Mortality : Modeling Polygamous Mortality in the Great Basin
Polygamy : The Mormon Enigma
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Reconstruction and Mormon America
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Remembering Polygamy : The RLDS Church and American Spiritual Transformaitons in the Late Twentieth Century
"Render unto Caesar": The Plight of Nineteenth-Century Polygamists
Restless Pilgrim : Andrew Jenson's Quest for Latter-day Saint History
Roundtable: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Runaway Wives, 1830-1860
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
Sister Saints : Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy
Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
Storming the Nation : The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
Striving to Live the Principle in Utah's First Temple City : A Snapshot of Polygamy in St. George, Utah, in June 1880
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
That "Same Old Question of Polygamy and Polygamous Living" : Some Recent Findings Regarding Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mormon Polygamy
The Anointed Quorum in Nauvoo 1842-45
The Application of Federal Power in Utah Territory
“The Blessing That’s Anticipated Here Will Be Realized in the Next Life”: The Development of Modern Latter-day Saint Marital Sealing Rules
The Celestial City : “Mormonism” and American Identity in Post-Independence Nigeria
The church family in nineteenth-century America : Mormonism and the public private divide
The Crisis of Mormon Christology : History, Progress, and Protestantism, 1880-1930
The Development of Early Latter-day Saint Marriage Rites, 1831-53
The Diaries of Mary Lois Walker Morris, 1879-1887
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy : Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
The Intellectual Cultures of Mormonism : Faith, Reason, and the Apologetic Enterprise
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 11 : September 1842–February 1843
The Joseph Smith-Sylvia Sessions Plural Sealing : Polyandry or Polygyny?
The Journals of George Q. Cannon : Hawaiian Mission, 1850-1854
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Long Honeymoon : Jan Shipps Among the Mormons
The Morley Settlement in Illinois, 1839-1846 : Tribe and Clan in a Nauvoo Mormon Community
The Mormon Church in Utah
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Nauvoo Legion and the Prevention of the Utah War
Theology of Sexuality
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Polygamous Wives Writing Club : From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
"There Is Always a Way of Escape" : Continuity and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Boundary Maintenance Strategies
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857 : Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt
The Social-Historical Context of Mormon Beliefs
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
The 'Unidentified Pioneers' : An Analysis of Staffordshire Mormons, 1837 to 1870
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
"We Believe the Hand of the Lord Is in It" : Memories of Divine Intervention in the Zion's Camp Expedition
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
Which Is the Wisest Course? : The Transformation in Mormon Temple Consciousness, 1870-1898
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women in Utah History : Paradigm or Paradox?
Women's Popular Literature as Theological Discourse : A Mormon Case Study, 1880-1920
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity
Writing Brigham Young
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830-1980
Adopted or Indentured, 1850-1870 : Native Children in Mormon Households
After 150 Years : The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective
A History of Sanpete County
A Journey to Great Salt Lake City, with a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on The Religious Movement in the United States
A Kingdom Transformed : Themes in the Development of Mormonism
Alexander William Doniphan : Portrait of a Missouri Moderate
A Little-Known Defense of Polygamy from the Mormon Press in 1842
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
An Early Latter-day Saint History : The Book of John Whitmer Kept by Commandment
An Enduring Legacy : Daughters of Utah Pioneers
An Ordered Love : The Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, The Mormons, and The Oneida Community
A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and Members of Zion's Camp, 1830-1839
A Reappraisal of Utah's Black Hawk War
A Sermon in the Desert : Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah
A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage before the Death of Joseph Smith
A Study of the Utah Commission, 1882-96
A Time of Marriage : Monogamy and Polygamy in a Utah Town
A Visit to Salt Lake : Being a Journey Across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlement at Utah.
Before and after Mt. Pisgah
Beyond the Manifesto : Polygamous Cohabitation among LDS General Authorities after 1890
Brigham Young : The American Moses
Brigham Young, the Colonizer
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Charles Edmund Richardson, Man of Destiny
Charles S. Zane : Apostle of the New Era
Church Chronology
Collected Discourses Delivered by President Wilford Woodruff, his two Counselors, the Twelve Apostles and Others, Volumes 1-5, 1886-1898
Conflict at Kirtland : The Nature and Causes of External and Internal Conflict of the Mormons in Ohio between 1830 and 1838
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
Copy of diary and missionary journal of William Kilshaw Barton, pioneer of 1852
Courtship and Romance in Utah Territory : Doing Away with 'The Gentile Custom of Sparkification'
Cultural Crisis in the Mormon Kingdom : A Reconsideration of the Causes of Kirtland Dissent
Defence of Polygamy, by a Lady in Utah : In a Letter to Her Sister in New Hampshire
Demographic Transition in a Frontier Town : Manti, Utah, 1849-1948
Desert Saints : The Mormon Frontier in Utah
Determining and Defining 'Wife' : The Brigham Young Households
Divorce among Mormon Polygamists : Extent and Explanations
Early Colonization Patterns
Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Early Mormon Polygamy Defenses
Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ensign to the Nations : A History of the Church from 1846 to the Present
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
Evolutionary Speculations on the Oligarchic Development of Mormon Polygyny
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Expectations Westward : The Mormons and the Emigration of Their British Converts in the Nineteenth Century
Family Structure and Dynamics in Early Utah Mormon Families, 1847-1885
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygamy
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Forty Years among the Indians
Governmental Beginnings
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies
Heart Throbs of the West
History of Brigham Young, 1847-1867
History of Indian Depredations in Utah
History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
History of Utah
Homeward to Zion : The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
How Common the Principle? Women as Plural Wives in 1860
Human Mortality in a Natural Disaster : Willie-Handcart-Company
I Knew the Prophets : An Analysis of the Letter of Benjamin F. Johnson to George F. Gibbs, Reporting Doctrinal Views of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
Imprint of Agricultural Systems on the Utah Landscape
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Integration into the National Economy, 1896-1920
Isn't One Wife Enough?
John Hyde, Jr., Mormon Renegade
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Restitution of All Things
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Joseph Smith's Kirtland : Eyewitness Accounts
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Joseph Smith : The Prophet, The Man
Judicial Prosecution of Prisoners For LDS Plural Marriage : Prison Sentences, 1884-1895
Justice for All or for the 'Elect'? : The Utah County Probate Court, 1855-72
Kidnapped from that Land : The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Latter-day Saint Social Life : Social Research on the LDS Church and its Members
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, Plural Wife
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Manchester Mormons : The Journal of William Clayton 1840 to 1842
Mapping Mormons across the Modern West
Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon Demographic History II : The Family Life Cycle and Natural Fertility
Mormon Demographic History I : Nuptiality and Fertility of Once-Married Couples
Mormon Divorce and the Statute of 1852 : Questions for Divorce in the 1980's
Mormon Doctrine
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism in Conflict : The Nauvoo Years
Mormonism : Its Leaders and Designs
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Midwife : The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Mormon Nauvoo from a Non-Mormon Perspective
Mormon Origins in New York : An Introductory Analysis
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
Mormon Polygamous Families : Life in the Principle
Mormon Polygamy : A Bibliography, 1977-92
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Polygamy : A Review Article
Mormon Polygamy : Belief and Practice in Nauvoo
Mormon Polygyny in the Nineteenth Century : A Theoretical Analysis
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-52 : 'And Should We Die'
Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy
My Life's Review
Nauvoo : Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46 : A Preliminary Demographic Report
Nauvoo : The City of Joseph
Nearly Everything Imaginable : The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers
New Light on an Old Hypothesis : The Ohio Origins of the Revelation on Eternal Marriage
New Views of Mormon History : A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Notes on Mormon Polygamy
One Wife or Several? A Comparative Study of Late Nineteenth-Century Marriage in Utah
On Their Own : Widows and Widowhood in the American Southwest, 1848-1939
People on the Mormon Frontier : Kanab's Families of 1874
Pestiferous Ironclads : The Grasshopper Problem in Pioneer Utah
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah
Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude
Plural Marriage
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
Polygamous Yet Monogamous : Cultural Conflict in the Writings of Mormon Polygamous Wives
Polygamy and the Economics of Salvation
Population Growth in the Mormon Core Area : 1847-90
Prisoner for Polygamy : The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87
Promises Made to the Fathers : Mormon Covenant Organization
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Reflections on Mormon History : Zion and the Anti-Legal Tradition
Refuge and Retrenchment : The Mormon Quest for Identity
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints, Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience
Resolution of Civil Disputes by Mormon Ecclesiastical Courts
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Sailing 'The Old Ship Zion' : The Life of George D. Watt
Saints on the Seas : A Maritime History of Mormon Migration, 1830-1890
Sanpete Scenes : A Guide to Utah's Heart
Sex and Prophetic Power : A Comparison of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Oneida Community, with Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormon Prophet
Since 1950 : Creators and Creations of Mormon History
Single Men in a Polygamous Society : Male Marriage Patterns in Manti, Utah
Sister Saints
Steaming Through : Arrangements for Mormon Emigration from Europe, 1869-1887
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
The Basis of Mormon Success : A Theoretical Application
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Common Law of England in the Territory of Utah
The Diary of Charles Lowell Walker
The Distribution of Mormon Wealth and Income in 1857
The Early Autobiography and Diary of Ellis Reynolds Shipp
The Gathering of Zion : The Story of the Mormon Trail
The Genealogical Society of Utah as a Data Resource for Historical Demography
The Gold Discovery Journal of Azariah Smith
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The History of LDS Temple Admission Standards
The History of Marriage in Utah, 1847-1905
The Incidence of Mormon Polygamy in 1880 : 'Dixie' versus Davis Stake
The Indians in Utah Territory
The Judiciary and the Common Law in Utah Territory, 1850-61
The Latter-day Saint Family : A Book of Selected Readings
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Manifesto : Mormondom's Watershed
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Gathering
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Historical Demography Project
The Mormon People : Their Character and Traditions
The Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage : The Social Construction of Religious Identity and Commitment
The Mormon Reformation
The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857 : The Rhetoric and the Reality
The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West
The Mormons and the Law : The Polygamy Cases
The Mormons, the Law and the Territory of Utah
The Mormon Village : A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement
The Other Forty-niners : A Topical History of Sanpete County, Utah, 1849-1983
The Political Reconstruction of Utah Territory, 1866-1890
The Polygyny-Fertility Hypothesis : A Re-evaluation
The Popular History of Early Victorian Britain : A Mormon Contribution
The Principle Revoked : A Closer Look at the Demise of Plural Marriage
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Relationship between Social Status and Biological Success : A Case Study of the Mormon Religious Hierarchy
The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith : A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants
The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Struggle Over Adoption of Common Law in Utah
The Unusual Jurisdiction of County Probate Courts in the Territory of Utah
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Writing of Joseph Smith's History
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Three Frontiers : Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900
Towards a Dependent Commonwealth
Twentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah
Ultimate Taboos : Incest and Mormon Polygamy
Under the Sunbonnets : Mormon Women with Faces
Unpublished Revelations of the Prophets and Presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Utah : A People's History
Utah History Encyclopedia
Utah's Black Hawk War
Utah's History
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Utah Widowhood : A Demographic Profile
Wealth, Polygamy, and Fertility in a Polygamous Society : Utah County Mormons, 1851-1870
Weather, Disaster, and Responsibility : An Essay on the Willie and Martin Handcart Story
Wilford Woodruff and the Mormon Reformation of 1855-57
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Women of Principle : Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny
Women's Work on the Mormon Frontier
Women, the Mormon Family, and Class Mobility : Nineteenth-Century Victorian Ideology in a Twentieth-century Church
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900