Polygamy on the pedernales
Subtitle: Lyman Wight's polygamous Mormon villages in antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
By: Melvin C. Johnson.
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Logan, UT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Wight, Lyman.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Texas -- History.; Texas -- Church history.
Description: In the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.ʼs murder in 1844, his following splintered, and some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the "Wild Ram of Texas," Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, before his murder, had considered moving his followers, who were increasingly unwelcome in the Midwest. He had instructed Wight to take a small band of church members from Wisconsin to establish a Texas colony that would prepare the ground for a mass migration of the membership. Having received these orders directly from Smith, Wight did not believe the formerʼs death changed their significance. If anything, he felt all the more responsible for fulfilling what he believed was a prophetʼs intention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wild ram of Texas; title: Militant Mormonism on the American frontier; title: The wild ram stray from the fold; title: Gone to Texas; title: Frontier Mormonism in the Texas hill country; title: Bishop George Miller and zodiac : 1848-1849; title: Cutting the wild ram from the flock; title: Independent Mormonism in antebellum Texas; title: Polygamy and a temple on the pedernales; title: The Mormon Millers of Hamilton Valley; title: The Mormon cowboys of Bandera County; title: The way of all flesh.