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English

Gordon, Sarah Barringer

The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

University of North Carolina Press

2002

[2003 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

Award Winner
Plural marriage, judicial history
Plural marriage, public image
Public image, U.S., 19th century

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Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
"I Consider the Proper Authority Rests Among the Mormons" : Oran Brownson to Orestes Brownson on Oran's Conversion to Mormonism
"I am not and never have been a polygamist" : Reed Smoot's Speech before the United States Senate
"Like Splitting a Man Up His Backbone" : The Territorial Dismemberment of Utah, 1850-1896
"No True Religion without True Science" : Science and the Construction of Mormon
Whiteness
"Our Religion Is Not Hostile to Real Science" : Evolution, Eugenics, and Race/Religion-Making in Mormonism's First Century

"Prepared to Abide the Penalty" : Latter-day Saints and Civil Disobedience

"Smoot Smites Smut" : Apostle-Senator Reed Smoot's 1930 Campaign against Obscene Books

"The Assault of Laughter" : The Comic Attack On Mormon Polygamy in Popular Literature
"The Wars and the Perplexities of the Nations" : Reflections on early Mormonism, violence, and the state
"There Is Always a Way of Escape" : Continuity and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Boundary Maintenance Strategies
"We believe in the gift of tongues" : The 1906 Pentecostal Revolution and Its Effects on the LDS Use of the Gift of Tongues in the Twentieth Century
A Faded Legacy : Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Politically Peculiar People : How Mormons Moved into and Then out of the Political Mainstream
A Seething Cauldron of Controversy : The First Trial of John D. Lee, 1875
A Society of Like-Minded Men : American Localism and the Mormon Expulsion from Jackson County


A Uniform and Common Recollection : Joseph Smith's Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory, 1852-2002
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
All "Mormon Elder-Berry's" Children : Race, Whiteness, and the Attack on Mormon "Anglo-Saxon Triumphalism"
American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Appropriating the Secular : Mormonism and the World Columbia Exposition of 1893
Barbarians Within the Gates : Congressional Debates on Mormon Polygamy, 1850-1879
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
Civil War’s Aftermath : Reconstruction, Abolition, and Polygamy
Clyde Forsberg's Equal Rites and the Exoticizing of Mormonism
Contesting the LDS Image : The North American Review and the Mormons, 1881-1907
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Elizabeth Kane's "Mormon Problem" : Another Perspective of Thomas L. Kane's Work for the Mormons
Embracing the Law Reading Doctrine and Covenants 42
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Exhibiting Theology : James E. Talmage and Mormon Public Relations, 1915-20
Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere : The Gülen Movement and the Mormon Church
Fashioning a Newer Mormon History
Framing the Nation : Religion, Film, and American Belonging
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
From Prayer to Visitation : Reexamining Lorenzo Snow's Vision of Jesus Christ in the Salt Lake Temple
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land : Faith and Conflict in the American West
Gold Rush Saints : California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches
Introduction : Utah in the Twentieth Century
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Just How "Scandalous" is the Golden Plates Story? : Academic Discourse on the Origin of the Book of Mormon
Letters on Mormon Polygamy and Progeny : Eliza R. Snow and Martin Luther Holbrook, 1866-1869
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Lot Smith: Mormon Pioneer and American Frontiersman
Making Space on the Western Frontier : Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
Manly Virtue : Defining Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Monogamy Underground : The Burial of Mormon Plural Marriage in the Graves of Joseph and Emma Smith
Mormon Canonizing Authority and Women's Gender Theologies, 1890-1942
Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector : A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861
Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormonism and Anthropology : On Ways of Knowing
Mormons, Freethinkers, and the Limits of Toleration

Mountain Meadows Massacre : Collected Legal Papers
Muslims Under the Mormon Eye : Theology, Rhetoric, and Personal Contacts, 1830-1910
Parallel Paths : LDS General Conference and Mormon History
Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Post New Mormon History : A Manifesto
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Reconstruction, Religion, and the West: The Great Impeacher Meets the Mormons
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah
Sacred Borders : Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America
Scribbling Women in Zion : Mormon Women's Fascination with Fanny Fern
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
Taming the Past to Conquer the Future : The Pioneer Jubilee of 1897
Testimony and Theology : The Mormon Struggle with America's Civil Religion
That "Same Old Question of Polygamy and Polygamous Living" : Some Recent Findings Regarding Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Mormon Polygamy
The Current Crisis in the Formation and Regulation of Latter-day Saints' Sexual Identity
The Diaries of Mary Lois Walker Morris, 1879-1887
The Early Community of Christ Mission to "Redeem" the Church in Utah
The Long Honeymoon : Jan Shipps Among the Mormons
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Quest for Glory : The religious world of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormons and the Mounties : Contact and Assimilation in the Late Nineteenth Century
The Nauvoo Legion and the Prevention of the Utah War
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Persistence of Mormon Plural Marriage
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah, 1888-1963
The Tragic Matter of Louie Wells and John Q. Cannon
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity
The church family in nineteenth-century America : Mormonism and the public private divide
Thomas L. Kane and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Thoughts from the Farther West : Mormons, California, and the Civil War
Toward a Catholic History of Mormonism
Unpopular Sovereignty : Brigham Young and the U.S. Government, 1847-1877
What Jane James Saw
What Kind of Prejudice Was Anti-Mormonism?
What We Will Do Now That New Mormon History is Old : A Roundtable
When Buffalo Bill Came to Utah
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women in Utah History : Paradigm or Paradox?
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

'At Their Peril' : Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850-1900
'Good Guys' vs. 'Good Guys' : Rudger Clawson, John Sharp, and Civil Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Utah
'In Honorable Remembrance' : Thomas L. Kane's Services to the Mormons
'In the Toils,' or 'Onward for Zion' : Images of the Mormon Woman, 1852-1890
'Strength in Our Union' : The Making of Mormon Sisterhood
'The Liberty of Self-Degradation' : Polygamy, Woman Suffrage, and Consent in Nineteenth-Century America
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Critique of the Reynolds Decision
A Mormon Bibliography 1830-1930 : Ten Year Supplement
A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930 : Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
A Rare Judicial Service : Charles S. Zane
A Reexamination of the Woodruff Manifesto in the Light of Utah Constitutional History
A Stench in the Nostrils of Honest Men : Southern Democrats and the Edmunds Act of 1882
A Study of the Utah Commission, 1882-96
Across the Continent : A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
After Polygamy Was Made a Sin : The Social History of Christian Polygamy
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
An Ordered Love : The Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, The Mormons, and The Oneida Community
Anti-Mormon Mob Violence and the Rhetoric of Law and Order in Early Mormon History
Anti-Mormonism in Idaho, 1872-1892
Battle for the Ballot : Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
Beyond the Manifesto : Polygamous Cohabitation among LDS General Authorities after 1890
Blasphemy and the Law of Religious Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America
Boadicea, the Mormon Wife : Life-Scenes in Utah
Brigham Young : American Moses
Causes of the Utah War Reconsidered
Charles C. Rich : Mormon General and Western Frontiersman
Charles S. Zane : Apostle of the New Era
Conan Doyle and the Latter-day Saints
Crusade against Theocracy : The Reminiscence of Judge Jacob Smith Boreman of Utah, 1872-1877
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Distorting Polygamy for Fun and Profit : Artemus Ward and Mark Twain among the Mormons
Divorce among Mormon Polygamists : Extent and Explanations
Early Cultural and Intellectual Development
Early Mormon Polygamy Defenses
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Emmeline B. Wells : A Voice for Mormon Women
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Expose? of Polygamy : A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
Federal Authority Versus Polygamic Theocracy : James B. McKean and the Mormons, 1870-1875
Female Life Among the Mormons ; A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience
Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygamy
For God and the American Home : The Attempt to Unseat Senator Reed Smoot, 1903-1907
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Free Schools Come to Utah
From Housewife to Heretic
George Q. Cannon : A Biography
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
History of Baptist Missions in Utah, 1871-1931
History of Utah
How Wide the Divide? : A Mormon & an Evangelical in Conversation
Immigration and the 'Mormon Question' : An International Episode
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
In Their Own Behalf : The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Isn't One Wife Enough?
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
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
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Legislating Morality : Reynolds vs. United States
Life behind Bars : Mormon Cohabs of the 1880's
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Lords of Creation : Polygamy, the Abrahamic Household, and Mormon Patriarchy
Lorenzo Snow's Appellate Court Victory
Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs and the Mormons
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Divorce and the Statute of 1852 : Questions for Divorce in the 1980's
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Nauvoo from a Non-Mormon Perspective
Mormon Polygamous Families : Life in the Principle
Mormon Polygamy : A Bibliography, 1977-92
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Polygamy : A Review Article
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unveiled : The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young
Mormonism Unveiled; Or, A History of Mormonism from its Rise to the Present Time
Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansman : Federal Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870-1893
Mothers and Daughters in Polygamy
Mr. Smoot Goes to Washington : The Politics of American Religious Identity, 1900-1920
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Notes on Mormon Polygamy
Once a Peculiar People : Cognitive Dissonance and the Suppression of Mormon Polygamy as a Case Study Negating the Belief-Action Distinction
Plural Marriage and Religious Freedom : The Impact of Reynolds v. United States
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Political Patterns in New Mexico and Utah Territories : 1850-1900
Polygamy : An Issue in the Election of 1860?
Polygamy and the Right to Marry : New Life for an Old Lifestyle
Prisoner for Conscience' Sake : The Life of George Reynolds
Prisoner for Polygamy : The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87
Prisoners for Conscience Sake
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Relations of Rescue : The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Religion and the Law : The Mormon Experience in the Nineteenth Century
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
Reminiscences of Early Utah
Reynolds v. United States : Nineteenth Century Forms of Marriage and the Status of Women
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Selling God : American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture
Sensational Virtue : Nineteenth-Century Mormon Fiction and American Popular Taste
Sentinel in the East : A Biography of Thomas L. Kane
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : Spiritualism and 'New Religions'
Sister-Wives and Suffragists : Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage, 1870-1896
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
Steaming Through : Arrangements for Mormon Emigration from Europe, 1869-1887
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The 'Leading Sisters' : A Female Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Mormon Society
The 'Secularization' of Utah and Religious Competition
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925 : A Debate on the American Home
The Armies of God
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
The B. H. Roberts Case of 1898-1900
The Bone in the Throat : Orson Pratt and the Public Announcement of Plural Marriage
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Burned-Over District : The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Danite Band of 1838
The Death of Polygamy in Utah
The Democratization of American Christianity
The Development of Political Parties in Utah : The First Phase
The Far Southwest : 1846-1912, A Territorial History
The Federal Government and Its Policies Regarding the Frontier Era of Utah Territory, 1850-1877
The Feminist Campaign for the Exclusion of Brigham Henry Roberts from the Fifty-Sixth Congress
The Golden Bible in the Bible's Golden Age : The Book of Mormon and Antebellum Print Culture
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Judiciary and the Common Law in Utah Territory, 1850-61
The Kingdom of Matthias
The LDS Church's Campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932 : An American Elite
The Mormon Issue in Congress, 1872-1882, Drawing on the Experience of Territorial Delegate George Q. Cannon
The Mormon Question Enters National Politics, 1850-1856
The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857 : The Rhetoric and the Reality
The Mormon problem, the Nation's dilemma : New data, new method, involving leading questions of the day
The Mormon-Suffrage Relationship : Personal and Political Quandaries
The Mormons and the Law : The Polygamy Cases
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Moses Thatcher Case
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The New England Origins of Mormonism
The Polygamous Prelude
The Prison Diary of a Mormon Apostle
The Reed Smoot Decision
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Rise, Progress, and Travels of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . . . .
The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879
The State of Deseret
The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
The Supreme Court, Polygamy and the Enforcement of Morals in Nineteenth Century America : An Analysis of Reynolds v. United States
The Territories and the United States, 1861-1890 : Studies in Colonial Administration
The True Reynolds v. United States
The Twenty-seventh Wife
The Twin Relic : A Study of Mormon Polygamy and the Campaign by the Government of the United States for its Abolition, 1852-1890
The Unusual Jurisdiction of County Probate Courts in the Territory of Utah
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Women of Mormondom
The women of Mormonism : Or, The story of polygamy as told by the victims themselves
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Thomas L. Kane : Friend of the Saints
Two School Systems in Conflict : 1867-1890
Under the Prophet in Utah : The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
Victory in Defeat : Polygamy and the Mormon Legal Encounter with the Federal Government
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
Wife No. 19
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William H. Hooper, the Utah Delegate and Female Suffrage Advocate
Women's Response to Plural Marriage
Women's Voices : An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Women, Family, and Utopia : Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900