Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

Mormon president Wilford Woodruff announced in a document known as "The Manifesto" that the church would renounce the practice of polygamy. Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4 ...

where Mormons fled and went to Utah to be able to practice polygamy in peace.” Grenfell delved further, saying that those ...

The church disavowed polygamy in 1890 as a condition of Utah statehood, and today members of the faith found to be practicing plural marriage are excommunicated. Fundamentalist Mormons ...

Mormons challenged anti-polygamy statutes ... pardoned polygamists, and admitted Utah to the Union in 1896. The Manifesto, though never described as a revelation, has remained the official ...

In 1956 Utah authorities seized seven children of ... So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

"Let Utah alone," says B. H. Roberts. "Polygamy will die of itself," says the Mormon church. Polygamy, I reply, will die when we kill it, and not sooner. What matter if new polygamous marriages ...

There, until Green drew attention to himself by promoting polygamy on national ... excommunicated from the Mormon church. "My crime isn't so much being a polygamist in Utah, there are tens of ...