Item Detail
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4027
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English
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Buckeye's Laments : Two Early Insider Exposes of Mormon Polygamy and Their Authorship
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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
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Winter 2003
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96
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4
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Urbana, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Illinois State Historical Society
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350-90
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In February and April 1844, Warsaw newspapers published two satirical poems critical of Joseph Smith. The poems display an insider's knowledge of the practice and theology of Mormon polygamy. Although only the pseudonym Buckeye is given for the author, internal evidence and clues point to Francis M. Higbee as the author of the poems. The text of both poems are printed in an appendix (pages 375-82)
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Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
'Illicit Intercourse,' Plural Marriage, and the Nauvoo Stake High Council, 1840-1844
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West