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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
2) Escape
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Language
English
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Choosing freedom from polygamy over fear, Carolyn Jessop flees her life within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and now tells her harrowing story. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS.
3) Sister wife
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Brigham Bybee has withdrawn from the routine practice of law and purchased Piute Villa, a motel in Kanab, Utah with a large, concrete tepee in the middle of the grounds. He wants to be near the beautiful Zolene Swapp. Still, when the state approaches him to prosecute the notorious polygamist, T. Rampton Crowe, Brig accepts. When a runaway "plural wife" of Crowe's, Mercy, is beaten, bloody, and terrified and tells a story of murder and mutilation within...
4) Tributary
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Clair Martin's dauntless search for self leads her from the domination of Mormon polygamy to the chaos of Reconstruction Dixie and back to Utah where she learns from Shoshone Indian ways how to take her place, at last, in the land she loves. Barbara K. Richardson's debut novel "Guest House" was an Eric Hoffer Award fiction finalist. She lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado.
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Based on the diaries of the author's great-great grandmother, describes how Jean Rio, a recent widow and mother of seven, lured by the promises of Mormon missionaries, embarked on a long and difficult journey to Utah, where she found disillusionment, zealotry, violence, the loss of her wealth, and the repellent practice of polygamy. The richly told story of a nineteenth century woman, the author's great-great grandmother, whose religious faith was...
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Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The priceless ruby necklace secretly given to Ophelia Oatman by her dying mother isn't easily given away--nor is her virginity. But Ophelia must choose between them. The necklace becomes both Ophelia's ticket to freedom and shackles of shame. Fate, family legacy, hair color, the shape of her skull, sex, survival, the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and the tension between Mormons and Gentiles in the Utah Territory converge to shape her...
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Publisher
Distributed by Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull, a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding her...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Mormonism is one of the world's fastest growing religions, doubling its membership every 15 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the formal denomination of the Mormon church) is now 10 million strong, with more than half of its membership coming from outside the United States. More than 88 million copies of The Book of Mormon have been printed, and it has been translated into more than 50 languages. Mormons in America tells the...