Join Lindsay as she interviews John Hatch from Signature Books about the lives and wives of Lorenzo Snow.

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Links and texts mentioned in this podcast:

• Signature Books
• Juanita Brooks lecture
• Harold B. Lee Library info on Lorenzo Snow
• Chronological history of Lorenzo Snow
• Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage by B. Carmon Hardy
• Brian Hales’ take on Lorenzo Snow
• FAIR Mormon takes on “Fundamentalist Assumptions”
• Denver Snuffer on Lorenzo Snow

Women married to Lorenzo Snow as plural wives:

• Charlotte Squires (19 November 1825 Ohio – 25 September 1850). Married October 1844.
• Mary Adaline Goddard (8 March 1812 Connecticut – 28 December 1898). Married 1845.
• Sarah Ann Prichard (29 November 1826 Ohio – 30 November 1900). Married 21 April 1845.
• Harriet Amelia Squires (13 September 1819 Ohio – 12 May 1890). Married 17 January 1846.
• Eleanor Houtz (14 August 1831 Pennsylvania – 13 September 1896). Married 1848.
• Caroline Horton (25 December 1828 England – 21 February 1857). Married 9 October 1853.
• Mary Elizabeth Houtz (19 May 1840 Pennsylvania – 31 May 1906). Married 1857.
• Phoebe Amelia Woodruff (4 March 1842 Nauvoo, Illinois – 15 February 1919). Married 4 April 1859. Phoebe was the daughter of Wilford Woodruff.
• Sarah Minnie Ephramina Jensen (10 October 1854^[3] – 2 January 1908). Married on 12 June 1871

Join Lindsay as she interviews scholars Lorie Winder Stromberg and Sarah Barringer Gordon about Mormon women who were imprisoned for practicing polygamy in the 19th Century.  

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  Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:

• Lorie’s essay can be found in the Second Edition of the Persistence of Polygamy
• Old newspaper headline about Mormon Women imprisoned for polygamy

  Join Lindsay as she discusses the events leading up to the 1890 Manifesto.

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Links mentioned in this podcast:  

• LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890 – 1904 by D. Michael Quinn
• The Four Hidden Revelations (1880, 1882, 1882, 1886)
• LDS Church, Official Declaration — 1, Doctrine and Covenants.
• Carmon Hardy’s (1992), Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
•  D. Michael Quinn’s (1997), The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
• Stephen Eliot Smith’s (2005), The ‘Mormon Question’ Revisited: Anti-polygamy Laws and the Free Exercise Clause
• Official Declaration—1: Full text of the Manifesto and other background statements from LDS Church Doctrine and Covenants
• The Manifesto of 1890 — article from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism