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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520 | |a 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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505 | 0 | |a -- Militant Mormonism on the American frontier -- The wild ram strays from the fold -- Gone to Texas -- Frontier Mormonism in the Texas hill country -- Bishop George Miller and zodiac : 1848-1849 -- Cutting the wild ram from the flock -- Independent Mormonism in antebellum Texas -- Polygamy and a temple on the pedernales -- The Mormon Millers of Hamilton Valley -- The Mormon cowboys of Bandera County -- The way of all flesh. | |
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600 | 1 | 1 | |a Wight, Lyman. |
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