The Short Creek Refuge Wallace Stegner described Short Creek, Arizona, of 1935 as the “capitol of the world.” This paper offers a personal account of how that remote desert hamlet rose as a haven for fundamentalist Mormons who felt called to continue the practice of polygamy even after the Manifesto. Told primarily through the eyes …
Speaker: Marianne Watson
The Fred E. Curtis Papers: LDS Church Surveillance of Fundamentalist Mormons, 1937-1954
The Fred E. Curtis Papers: LDS Church Surveillance of Fundamentalist Mormons, 1937-1954 Fred E. Curtis (1900-1967), an LDS bishop in the Hawthorne Ward, Granite Stake, was given a special assignment by the First Presidency in the 1930’s to observe 20th-century Mormon holdouts in his vicinity who continued to believe in, preach and/or practice plural marriage. …
Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage
Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage The panelists in this session have recently co-authored a groundbreaking book, Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage, which collects personal essays from one hundred women who currently live, have lived, or support the principle of plural marriage. One of the reasons the book is significant …