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In defence of Gods people if Need bee : Brigham Young Hampton
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Fall 2010
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78
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4
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344-358
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"Brigham Young Hampton played a front-line role in many of the public dramas of the period, and was jailed twice, once for a full year. His life story exemplifies the creation of a distinct Mormon identity, self-consciously at odds with others. Hampton's unpublished diary/autobiography is full of aspersions on sinister 'gentiles' and 'apostates,' contrasted with defenses of the character, spirituality, and actions of Latter-day Saints. Hampton engaged fully in LDS life: he underwent multiple baptisms, tithed regularly, performed temple work, participated in church meetings and prayer circles, practiced plural marriage, joined the United Order of Enoch, stood watch at Brigham Young's deathbed, and defended his church against its supposed enemies. His reputation among Mormons was that of a pious saint devoted to his church and its cause, while among some non-Mormons, his image was of a Latter-day thug. Hampton's experience was not that black and white, however. He also quarreled with his plural wives and vented his anger at LDS authorities and fellow Saints who he believed had cheated him financially and left him to face legal prosecution for the actions he took in defense of his church. Despite Hampton's sacrifices, the morally questionable nature of those actions makes him, at best, a problematic hero. Hampton's experiences with the law--as enforcer, suspect, and convict-- give us a look inside the public struggle for power in Utah as well as glimpses of the domestic realities of living in plural marriage and the hardships that both could entail."
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