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Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas
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Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845 to 1858 Hardcover - 2006

by Melvin C. Johnson

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  • Title Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845 to 1858
  • Author Melvin C. Johnson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Utah State University Press
  • Date 2006-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780874216271 / 0874216273
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.31 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Texas - Church history, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005035650
  • Dewey Decimal Code 289.376

About the author

Melvin C. Johnson lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, and teaches history and English at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas. His research interests range from logging railroads to Texas mill towns to Mormon cowboys in the Texas Hill Country. He has published articles in Environmental History, The West Texas Historical Quarterly, and elsewhere.

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Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858

Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858

by Johnson, Melvin C.

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Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 231pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Bound in light gray cloth, with title stamped in copper ink on the spine. In a lightly rubbed dust jacket. After the assassination of Joseph Smith in 1844, disputes regarding Brigham Young's succession led small groups of members to coalesce around other church leaders. Several of these groups, including those who had followed the free spirited, chemically dependent apostle Lyman Wight to Texas, ultimately gathered to form the early RLDS church, now known as the Community of Christ. Though the contemporary Community of Christ is often considered the most progressive branch of Mormonism (allowing women to hold leadership roles and supporting same sex marriages), the two churches shared many cultural similarities throughout the 19th century, including the practice of polygamy - though the RLDS faith never sanctioned the practice.
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