Predators, prey, and other kinfolk
Subtitle: growing up in polygamy
By: Dorothy Allred Solomon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Mormons; Polygamy; Mormon Church; Biography
Description: "'I am the daugher of my father's fourth plural wife, twenty-eighth of forty-eight children - a middle kid, you might say.' So begins this memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred. Since polygamy was abolished by manifesto in 1890, this is a story of secrecy and lies, of poverty and imprisonment and government raids. When raids threatened, the families were forced to scatter from their pastoral compound in Salt Lake City to the deserts of Mexico or the wilds of Montana. To follow the Lord's plan as dictated by the Principle, the human cost was huge. Eventually murder in its cruelest form entered when members of a rival fundamentalist group assassinated the author's father." "Dorothy Solomon, monogamous herself, broke from the fundamentalist group because she yearned for equality and could not reconcile the laws of God (as practiced by polygamists) with the vastly different laws of the state. This poignant account chronciles her brave quest for personal identity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 399).
Table of contents: title: The mark of my ancestors; title: Jewels in a heavenly crown; title: Vase with flowers; title: The fullness of times; title: Range wars and religion; title: In the colonies; title: Return to God's country; title: First love; title: The raids; title: Manna in the desert; title: Crossing the border; title: On the run; title: Versions of love; title: Life in Zion; title: War without honor; title: Blood atonement; title: The trial; title: Interface; title: Clutches of the pond; title: Sister-wife; title: Speaking of Isaac; title: Holding grace; title: The mark of my ancestors revisited.