Prisoner for Polygamy. The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary 1884-87.

Clawson, Rudger (editor Larson, Stan.)

ISBN 10: 0252018613 / ISBN 13: 9780252018619

Published by University of Illinois Press., Urbana, 1993

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x, 256pp, index, bibliography, appendices. Or light gray cloth in jacket. As new copy. The prison memoirs and letters of the first Mormon convicted of violating the Edmunds law which prohibited polygamy. These memoirs reflect the pride that Mormon polygamists felt at being 'prisoners for conscience sake' and include discussions of Mormon doctrines, accounts of daring prison escapes, details of prison life and in the passages dealing with his feelings about African-American inmates confirm his racist attitude. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prisoner for Polygamy. The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary 1884-87.
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press., Urbana
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252018613
• ISBN 13: 9780252018619
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theology,Religion,Myth, Legend, Philosophy.
  • Biography
  • Americana & Canadiana

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Synopsis

This collection of the prison memoirs and letters of the first Mormon
        convicted of violating the Edmunds Law, which prohibited polygamy, provides
        a unique perspective on this period of Utah history. Rudger Clawson (1857-1943)
        was a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
        serving as missionary, stake president, apostle, president of the Quorum
        of the Twelve Apostles, and counselor in the First Presidency.
      His memoirs of three years as a "cohab" in the Utah Territorial
        Penitentiary are published here for the first time. They reflect the pride
        Mormon polygamists felt at being "prisoners for conscience sake,"
        and they include discussions of Mormon doctrines, accounts of daring prison
        escapes, details of prison life, and the sense of a husband's frustration
        at being separated from his plural wife.