Post-Manifesto Polygamy: The 1899 to 1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen and Avery Woodruff Volume 11

by LuAnn Faylor Snyder

These letters among two women and their husband offer a rare look into the personal dynamics of an LDS polygamous relationship. Abraham "Owen" Woodruff was a young Mormon apostle, the son of President Wilford Woodruff, remembered for the Woodruff Manifesto, which called for the divinely inspired termination of plural marriage. It eased a systematic federal judicial assault on Mormons and made Utah statehood possible. It did not end polygamy in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874217393
• ISBN13: 9780874217391
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 19 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher