Item Detail
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7791
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26
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English
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'Mountain Common Law' : The Extralegal Punishment of Seducers in Early Utah
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Fall 1983
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51
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308-27
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Utah's Mormon majority condoned the killing of seducers in the last half of the nineteenth century. The "unwritten law," called "mountain common law" is examined and compared with the American experience generally. The few incidents of extralegal punishment of seducers are reviewed and analyzed.
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The Butler Murder of April 1869 : A Look at Extralegal Punishment in Utah
The Civil War Years in Utah : The Kingdom of God and the Territory that did not Fight
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The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857 : The Rhetoric and the Reality
Thomas L. Kane and the Mormon Problem in National Politics
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