PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. EARLY HISTORY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG.
CHAPTER II. POLITICAL.
CHAPTER III. POLITICAL HISTORY CONTINUED.
CHAPTER IV. POLITICAL HISTORY CONTINUED. THE MORMON WAR.
CHAPTER V. POLITICAL HISTORY CONTINUED.
CHAPTER VI. POLITICAL HISTORY CONTINUED.
CHAPTER VII. BRIGHAM AS PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH.
CHAPTER VIII. BRIGHAM AS TRUSTEE IN TRUST FOR THE CHURCH.
CHAPTER IX. BRIGHAM AS PROPHET, SEER, AND REVELATOR.
CHAPTER X. BRIGHAM AS LORD OF THE HAREM.
CHAPTER XI. THE WIVES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG.
CHAPTER XII. POLYGAMY.
CHAPTER XIII. THE ENDOWMENT. Dramatis PersonAE. Eloheim , or
CHAPTER XIV. BRIGHAM AS GRAND ARCHEE OF THE ORDER OF THE GODS.
CHAPTER XV. RECENT EVENTS. CONCLUSION.
THE MORMON PROPHET
AND
HIS HAREM;
OR,
AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG,
HIS
NUMEROUS WIVES AND CHILDREN.
BY
MRS. C. V. WAITE.
——"And with a piece of scripture,
Tell them,—that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.
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