num_pages: 328
description: More Wives Than One offers an in-depth look at the long-term interaction between belief and the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage, among the Latter-day Saints. Focusing on the small community of Manti, Utah, Kathryn M. Daynes provides an intimate view of how Mormon doctrine and Utah laws on marriage and divorce were applied in people's lives.
language: English
title: More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
titlecomplete: More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
genres: Religion, Nonfiction, Mormonism, Lds, History
ratings_count: 62
publisher: University of Illinois Press