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More Wives Than One

Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910

by Kathryn M. Daynes

A quantitative and social history of plural marriage based largely on records from Manti, Utah. Daynes shows how the marriage system functioned, who entered plural unions and how the system was dismantled after 1890.

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