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English
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The Bone in the Throat : Orson Pratt and the Public Announcement of Plural Marriage
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Western Historical Quarterly
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July 1987
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18
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3
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Logan, UT
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Oxford University Press
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293-314
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This article examines the background of the 1852 announcement of polygamy by Orson Pratt and discusses his defense of the doctrine and practice in the years that followed. As suggested by the early policy of secrecy and the recent reticence to discuss polygamy, Mormons were sensitive to the isolation plural marriage placed them in even during the era of open acknowledgement. The frontier boldness of Brigham Young, and others close to him in Utah, made public announcement possible. But Pratt's defense not only became an important element in nineteenth-century Mormon thinking, but contributed to the place the Latter-day Saint experience occupies in western American history.
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