Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Village in Antebellum Texas

by Melvin C. Johnson

In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his following splintered. Some followed 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, before his murder, had considered moving his followers, who were increasingly unwelcome in the Midwest. He had instructed Wight to take a small band of church members from Wisconsin to establish a Texas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874216281
• ISBN13: 9780874216288
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher