Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858

Polygamy on the Pedernales Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johnson, Melvin C., 1949- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, UT : Utah State University, University Libraries 2006
2006.
Materias:
Wight, Lyman.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Texas > History.
Texas > Church history.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432621406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • -- 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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