Prisoner for Polygamy. The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary 1884-87.
Clawson, Rudger (editor Larson, Stan.)
Language: English
Published by University of Illinois Press., Urbana, 1993
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- Hardcover
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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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- Title
- Prisoner for Polygamy. The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary 1884-87.
- Author
- Clawson, Rudger (editor Larson, Stan.)
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press., Urbana
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0252018613
- ISBN 13
- 9780252018619
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Americana & Canadiana, Biography, Theology,Religion,Myth, Legend, Philosophy.
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.
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