Preserving Polygamy became a women's campaign in the late 1800s—a point that will surprise many, who assumed women hated the plural-wife dictate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And while there were many who did speak out strongly against the practice—Church founder Joseph Smith's first wife, Emma Hale Smith; Brigham Young's 19thwife, Ann Eliza Webb, who divorced him and traveled the nation decrying polygamy—there were also thousands of Mormon women who rallied, wrote a

November 2016
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Features
Western Books & Movies
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- Through Yavapai-Apache Eyes
- One fascinating and Formidable Pioneer Woman
- Navajo Women Helped the War Effort, Too
- Saying Goodbye to an American Hero
- Billy Breakenridge Zwing Hunt
- Law and Order on the Border
- Granville Stuart: Gentleman Vigilante
- Bread Across the West
- The Women on the Mother Road
- The Walk Down
- The ‘Perfesser’
- On to Oregon
- Roses So Sweet They Remember
- Raining Bricks and Shooting Citizens
- “Brazen Bill” Brazelton
- Juanita Brooks
- Good Words of Advice as the Noose Awaits
- Tales of Pat Garrett
- October was Black Bart’s Favorite
- DVD Review: Cemetery Without Crosses
- Mountain Charley
- A Photo has Always Been Worth a Thousand Words
- Preserving Polygamy
- Entertainment and the Arts
- Their Name Lives On
Departments
- During the Great Depression, Did People Eat Tumbleweed Soup?
- Western Events for November 2016
- What History Has Taught Me
- Why Did Stage Drivers Sit on the Right Side?
- TRUE WEST MOMENT: Geronimo on the Beach
- Buckaroos and Basques
- Did Old Westerners Generally Load only Five out of the Six Chambers?
- The Mormon Handcart Migration
- Starvation Winter
- When’s the Last Time You Visited Last Chance, Montana?
- Which Cards was “Wild Bill” Hickok Holding when He was Murdered?
- When Mrs. Satan Ran for President
- A Clear Path to a Clear Fork Post
- Do Westerns Accurately Show how Horses are Saddle Broken?
- The Coward of Little Big Horn