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The true history of a Mormon splinter group, led by maverick Mormon apostle Lyman Wight,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858 (Paperback)
Polygamy On The Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 by Melvin C. Johnson (teaches history and English at Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas) is the true history of a Mormon splinter group, led by maverick Mormon apostle Lyman Wight. After Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, Wight led his church to establish a Texas colony; his antagonism with Brigham Young kept his group apart from the majority of Mormons gathering in Utah. Though Wight and his followers made a significant contribution to the local Texas economy, Wight's death in 1858 while leading his dwindling group of followers on yet another migration brought an end to his splinter sect. An exhaustively researched saga, presented in a manner equally accessible to lay readers and religious history scholars.
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Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas 1845-1858 by Melvin C. Johnson (Paperback - March 31, 2006)
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