In the 1880s Mary Jane Mount Tanner wrote her life's story to leave "to my posterity an account which I think will interest them, and give them an idea of the changes and vicissitudes we had to pass through in the early settlement of Utah, and also in the early rise of the Mormon church."

In A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73: Elizabeth Kane's St. George Journal, you'll find the detailed stories of Elizabeth befriending the women of St. George while her two sons explored the red-rock bluffs and her husband hobnobbed with the likes of Jacob Hamblin. She found that they lived a "strange idyllic life" but nevertheless made her feel very much "at home."

Annie Clark Tanner was born September 24, 1864, in Farmington, Utah, the oldest child of Ezra Thompson Clark and his polygamous second wife, Susan Leggett. While a student at Brigham Young Academy, she became the plural wife of a faculty member, Joseph Tanner, by whom she had eight children in an otherwise unhappy marriage.

The majority of Smith's wives were younger than he, and one-third were between fourteen and twenty years of age. Another third were already married, and some of the husbands served as witnesses at their own wife's polyandrous wedding. In addition, some of the wives hinted that they bore Smith children—most notably Sylvia Sessions's daughter Josephine—although the children carried their stepfather's surname.

In this comprehensive survey of Mormon Polygamy, Richard Van Wagoner details, with precision and detachment, the tumultuous reaction among insiders and outsiders to plural marriage. In an honest, methodical way, he traces the origins, the peculiarities common to the midwestern and later Utah periods, and post-1890 new marriages. Drawing heavily on first-hand accounts, he outlines the theological underpinnings and the personal trauma associated with this lifestyle.

In the eleven years since the New Mormon Studies CD-ROM was first released, computers have bulked up to about eight times as much RAM and fifteen times the speed. Taking advantage of these developments, the 2009 edition has greater computational capacity and is quicker. The content has not changed—only the software has. You will find that you can enjoy the same ease of installation and functionality as with your original...

Conjuring up images of unisex bathrooms, homosexuality, the dangers of women in the military, and the divine calling of stay-at-home motherhood—none of which were directly related to equal rights—the LDS campaign began in Utah at church headquarters but importantly was fought across the country in states that had not yet ratified the proposed amendment.

There are two stereotypes of pioneer women: the silently suffering, "submissive but sturdy" woman in "sunbonnet, baby at breast, rifle at the ready, dedicated to restoring civilization as rapidly as possible" and women like the Calamity Jane who "drank, smoked, and cursed and was handy with a poker deck, a six-gun, and a horse."