First edition. First printing. Hardbound. 256 pages. Octavo. Light blue cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. As new in an as new jacket. A tight clean unread copy. Rudger Clawson was the first Mormon convicted of violating the Edmunds Law, which prohibited polygamy.

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Title: Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87 (First Edition)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0252018613
ISBN 13: 9780252018619
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Dimensions: 6.5 inches width by 9.5 inches height by 1 inches depth
Weight: 1.25 pounds

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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.

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