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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Table of Contents:
- -- 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.