Item Detail
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6516
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15
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English
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Brigham Young's Family : The Wilderness Years
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1979
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19
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474-500
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"After returning from England in 1841, Brigham Young faced one of the sternest tests of his life--a test that was to have sobering and far-reaching implications for himself and the structure of his family. It came when Joseph Smith privately introduced the principle of plural marriage to him as a divine commandment. None "could have been more averse to it than I was when it was first revealed," he recalled: "If any man had asked me what was my choice when Joseph revealed that doctrine, provided that it would not diminish my glory, I would have said, "Let me have but one wife;" . . . I was not desirous of shrinking from any duty, nor of failing in the least to do as I was commanded, but it was the first time in my life that I had desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation, and to regret that I was not in the coffin."" [Publisher's abstract]
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Brigham Young : American Moses
Father Brigham in His Western Canaan
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Joseph Bates Noble : Polygamy and the Temple Lot Case
Layered Lives : Boston Mormons and the Spatial Contexts of Conversion
Mormon Polygamy : A Bibliography, 1977-92
"My Dear Friend" : The Friendship and Correspondence of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
'Pleasing to the Eyes of an Exile' : The Latter-day Saint Sojourn at Winter Quarters, 1846-1848
Plural Accidents : Writing In Sacred Loneliness
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
Telling Latter-Day Saint Lives : The Craft and Continuing Challenge of Mormon Biography
The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
We'll Find the Place : The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848
Wives in Wagons : Winter Quarters and the Trek West
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books