Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle

Embry draws from both sociology and history to examine the workings of polygamous households in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Mormonism. A straightforward, scholarly approach to an era of regional history that has too often been relegated to folklore and myth. An examination of the practice of polygamy is essential to fully understand Mormonism historically. To gain a complete insight into the practice, however, one needs to look beyond the revelation and the laws that were passed against polygamy to the motives, beliefs, perceptions, and experiences of those who were part of polygamous families. This is a republication of the book previously published by the University of Utah Press.