Polygamy On The Pedernales.Polygamy polygamy: see marriage. polygamy Marriage to more than one spouse at a time. Although the term may also refer to polyandry (marriage to more than one man), it is often used as a synonym for polygyny (marriage to more than one woman), which appears On The Pedernales Melvin C. Johnson Utah State University Press Utah State University Press (or USU Press), founded in 1972, is a university press that is part of Utah State University. External link
7800 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-7800 0874216281(pb) 0874216273 (cloth) $21.95(pb) $39.95 (cloth) 1-800-621-2736 www.usu.edu/usupress Polygamy On The Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 by Melvin C. Johnson (teaches history and English at Angelina College Angelina College is a community college located in Lufkin, Texas, with a branch campus in nearby Nacogdoches, Texas, and a future location in Crockett, Texas History in Lufkin, Texas) is the true history of a Mormon splinter group splinter group n. A group, such as a religious sect or political faction, that has broken away from a parent group. splinter group Noun , led by maverick Mormon apostle Lyman Wight. After Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, Wight led his church to establish a Texas colony; his antagonism with Brigham Young kept his group apart from the majority of Mormons gathering in Utah. Though Wight and his followers made a significant contribution to the local Texas economy, Wight's death in 1858 while leading his dwindling dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. group of followers on yet another migration brought an end to his splinter sect. An exhaustively researched saga, presented in a manner equally accessible to lay readers and religious history scholars. Paul T. Vogel Reviewer |
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