Illustrations -- Foreword -- Editorial Procedures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. "Go Ye, Therefore, and Do the Works of Abraham": Mormon Polygamous Beginnings -- "Take Unto You Wives of the Lamanites and Nephites": An Early Revelation on Polygamy?: "Eternal Union of the Sexes": Marital Joy in Heaven: "And You Are the Woman": The Prophet's Polygamous Alliances: "So As To Keep It Hid": Polygamy and Secrecy: "Bennett Made Me Do It!": Scandal Erupts: "Great Hail Stones of Truth": Defending the Principle: "A New and An Everlasting Covenant": The 1843 Revelation: "An Endless Exaltation": Response to the 1843 Revelation: "Their Unholy Designs": Opposition Outside the Church: "To Explode the Vicious Principles": Dissent Mounts: "The Thing Which Put Them into the Power of Their Enemies": The Death of the Prophet and His Brother: The Principle Established.
2. "Let the Monogamic Law Sink to Rise No More": Mormons Tell the World about Polygamy -- "This Great, Sublime, Beautiful, and Glorious Doctrine": The 1852 Announcement: "Daring Them to Do Their Worst": Mormon Stalwarts Take the Field: "Practiced It Himself": Jesus Was a Pluralist: "The Biggest Whoremasters on Earth": Apostate, Hypocritical Christianity: "Stalwart Sons and Fair and Robust Daughters": The Regenerative Powers Of Mormon Polygamy: "Reform Must Begin in the Marriage Bed": Plurality As a Socio-Political Imperative: Builders of a New Civilization -- 3. "The Root of the Matter": Mormons Talk to Themselves about Polygamy -- "No Exaltation Without It": Importance of the Doctrine: "Like So Much Honey": Polygamy in Song and Story: "Go to Work and Reckon It Up": Family Empire: "Copy His Mind and Spirit": Patriarchal Dominion: "They Have Not Sense Enough": The Inferiority of Women: "When the Proper Intercourse Takes Place": Restoration of the Strength and Longevity of the Ancients: "Wash & Dress Them Up ": Intermarriage with Native Americans: The Millennium in View.
4. "Her Comfort Must Be Wholly in Her Children": Polygamy at Home -- "Not Half As Much a Slave": Public Comment By Women: "Spooning Aunt Nellie": Courting Plural Wives: "The Grandest Step of My Whole Life": Male Courtship of Plural Wives: "I Wrestled With My Heavenly Father": Accepting the Principle: "The Agony and the Exaltation": Repression of Romantic Love: "Not in Want of Me": Patriarchy and Polygamy: "With Fortitude and Faith": Triumph in the Principle: "Never a Cross Word": Support and Community among Women in Polygamy: "It Was Their Duty": Male Life in the Principle: "Enough Of Polygamy": Failure in the Principle: "Keep Your House As Becomes a Saint": Variation Within the Principle: "The Martyr's Crown": Judging Mormon Polygamy.
5. "They Practise ... As a Virtue What Others Do -- Secretly As a Sin": Non-Mormons Look at Polygamy -- "Not a Specially Sensual People": Five Remarkable Observers of Mormon Polygamous Life: "Pathetically 'Homely' Creatures": Humorists, Cartoonists, and Novelists Take Aim: "The Yellow, Sunken, Cadaverous Visage": Polygamy and Physiology: "The Most Startling Dropping Off from My Eyes": Tolerance for the Mormons: "They Must Soon Give Way": Warning Voices: "Cattle on Two Legs": Gentiles and Tabernacle Sermons: "An Oliver Cromwell Kind of Man": Call To Battle: Shaping the Mormon Image -- 6. "The Jentiles ar on the Track of the Saints": A National Crusade Begins -- "Promiscuous as the Cattle in the Fields": Attacks Commence: "This Creeping Leprosy": Polygamy and Public Lands: "Apply the Knife": Polygamy and Popular Sovereignty: "To Punish and Prevent the Practice of Polygamy": The Federal Government Acts: "Incestuous Connections and the Crime of Bigamy": A Military Officer Complains: "Asiatic Effeminancy": Reconstruction and Utah: "Already in the Death-Gasp": Pleas for Moderation: "Babylon Was Polygamic": New Attacks: "Silence and Smoke": Pressures Mount: "A Feature of the Life of Asiatic and of African People": The Supreme Court Speaks: An "Irrepressible" Conflict.
7. "Unless We Destroy Mormonism, Mormonism Will Destroy Us": The Crusade Full Tilt -- "The 'Let Alone' Method Has Failed": Clerics, Women, and Journalists Lead the Assault: "If Any Male Person ... Cohabits": Acts and Oaths: "That Terrible Persecution": The Judicial Crusade: "This Vile System Shall Be Blotted Out": The Crusade Quickens: "Senator Edmunds Has Solemnized More Polygamous Marriages Than Brigham Young": Gentile Dissent: The Crusade Nears Its Goal -- 8. "Measuring Arms With the Almighty": Mormonism on the Defense -- "We Prefer to Row Against the Current of Corruption": Continued Devotion to Plural Marriage: "They Bossed the President": Mormon Women Enter the Fray: "Officers, Speakers, Singers, and the Martial Band": Protest Meetings: "No Faithful Soul Dare Disobey": God and Prophets Speak: "Anything for Statehood": A Divided Road: "Polygamists Got Out of Sight": Mormon Flight From the Law: "Stripes That Run Crosswise": Mormon Polygamists in Prison: A Decade of Change.
9. "How Peculiar the Change": The Manifesto -- "Open Believers in the Doctrine": The 1890 Utah Commission Report: "My Advice to the Latter Day Saints": President Woodruff's Proclamation: "To Hoodwink the Public": Non-Mormon Responses: "A Class Who Do Not Relish It": Mormon Doubts: "An Uneasy Feeling Among the People": Master-In-Chancery Hearings: "Stop Murmuring and Complaining": President Woodruff Affirms the Manifesto Was Given By Revelation: "Final End of the Work": The Amnesty Petition: "The Mormon Is With Us": Gentile Acceptance: "Secret But Sacred": Continued Approval for Polygamous Marriages: "Explicit and Offensive Violation": Criticism Revives: "They Charge Us With Being Dishonest": Reed Smoot and a Second Manifesto: "The Mormon Game": The Magazine Crusade: The Decline of Mormon Polygamy -- 10. "We are Honor Bound": The Eclipse of Officially Approved Polygamy -- "A Solemn Covenant": The Rise of Mormon Fundamentalism: "Born of the Evil One": The LDS Church Condemns Fundamentalist Polygamy -- Afterword: The Legacy of Mormon Polygamy -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.
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