Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858 / / Melvin C. Johnson.
In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the ""Wild Ram of Texas,"" Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, befo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, UT : : Utah State University Press,, 2006. ©2006. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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| Summary: | In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the ""Wild Ram of Texas,"" Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, before his murder, had considered moving his followers, who were increasingly unwelcome in the Midwest. He had instructed Wight to take a small band of church members from Wisconsin to establish a Texas colony that would prepare the ground for a mass migration of the membership. Having received these orders directly from Smi-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283283468 9786613283467 0874215323 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Melvin C. Johnson. |