Year Of Polygamy Podcast

  Join Lindsay as she discusses the fantastic and gruesome autobiography of the youngest wife of John D. Lee, Ann Gordge.  This episode contains strong themes of violence and listener discretion is advised.     Links mentioned in this podcast: Ann’s Autobiography Ann’s short bio Playing With Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West […]

Join Lindsay and Kate Kelly as they discuss the Women’s Suffrage movement and how polygamy played and integral role. Links mentioned in this podcast: Photo of Martha Huges Cannon in the Utah State Senate in 1897 Sister-Wives and Suffragists: Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage 1870-1896

Join Lindsay as she talks with historian Barbara Jones Brown about polygamy in Mexico around the turn of the century.   Links mentioned in this podcast: Join the Mormon History Association! Article in Deseret News, “Remembering a Grand Soul, Lorna Call Alder” Guest post on Keepapitchinin about Lorna Women of Conviction lecture series Mormon Women’s […]

  Join Lindsay as she interview genealogist Corey Horward about one of Brigham Young’s most beloved wives, Emmeline Free. Links mentioned in this podcast: Emmeline Free Young Biographical Sketch, by Corey Howard Newspaper article, “Brigham’s Abandoned Pet”

  Join Lindsay as she discusses the life of Women’s Exponent writer Lucinda Dalton and the strange case of her posthumous divorce from her polygamist husband.   Links mentioned in this podcast:   Buy the reading guide here! Sister Saints Lucinda’s Autobiography Dalton Family History Site

Join Lindsay as she interviews Perry Porter about the legislation and laws surrounding Mormon polygamy.   Links mentioned in this podcast: Perry’s chronology of polygamy site Dialogue: Politicians, Mormons, Utah, and Statehood Religious duty arguments Article of marriage (Footnotes below by Perry Porter) According to B. H. Roberts] History of the Church, Vol.2, p.246, Footnotes It […]

Join Lindsay as she chats with author of The Polygamous Wives Writing Club, Paula Kelly Harline about her book, her opinions on the practice of plural marriage, and the voices of obscure Mormon frontierswomen.   Links mentioned in this podcast:   Buy the book here and support the voices of LDS women!

Join  Lindsay as she discusses the famous woman married to Brigham Young, dubbed as “Brigham’s Pet,” Amelia Folsom, said to be his favorite wife. Links mentioned in this podcast: The Tyranny of Mormonism: Or An Englishwoman in Utah; an Autobiography  By Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse, Harriet Beecher Stowe Devotees and Their Shrines: A Hand […]

  Join Lindsay as she interviews former LDS Church archivist and former State of Utah archivist Jeffery Johnson about the women married to Brigham Young.   Links mentioned in this episode: Defining ‘Wife’: The Brigham Young Households,” by Jeffrey Johnson A Mysterious Image Brigham Young With an Unknown Wife,” by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Robert […]

Join Lindsay as she talks about Emma Batchelor Lee French, a favorite wife of John D. Lee of Mountain Meadows Massacre fame.   Links mentioned in this podcast: Will Bagley’s: “ONE LONG FUNERAL MARCH”: A REVISIONIST’S VIEW OF THE MORMON HANDCART DISASTERS Courageous Emma Lee Endured Many Hardships in Pioneer Utah Emma Lee by Juanita […]

Join Lindsay as she discusses interesting Southern Utah communities that practiced plural marriage including Orderville and the United Order, Santa Clara and Cedar City.  TW: This post contains strong themes of violence.   Links mentioned in this post: Leonard J. Arrington’s Book, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints Mormon Polygamous Families, […]

  Join Lindsay as she discusses the history of St. George and several prominent polygamists in the area. Links and text mentioned in this podcast: Jacob Hamblin’s Bio, a Frontier Life by Todd Compton Larry Logue, “A Time of Marriage: Monogamy and Polygamy in a Utah Town,” Journal of Mormon History 11 (1984) The Incidence […]

Join Lindsay as she discusses the creation, suspension and continuation of the Relief Society. Links mentioned in this podcast: Keepapitchinin Forgotten Relief Societies 1844-67 by Richard Jensen Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society Mormon Enigma  

‘ Join Lindsay as she discusses three famous homes integral to the history of Utah polygamy- the Beehive House, the Lion House, and the Gardo House. Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast: You can read the text of this post here! Gardo House/Amelia Folsom Marian Bonswell interview Folsom Place Amelia Folmsom Leavitt […]

Join Lindsay as she interviews historian Joseph Geisner about 1850’s Utah including stories about Bill Hickman and Porter Rockwell.  This episode contains strong themes of violence. This is part two of a two-part episode.   Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:   Housewives, Hussies, and Heroines, or the Women of Johnston’s Army […]

Join Lindsay as she interviews historian Joseph Geisner about 1850’s Utah including stories about Bill Hickman and Porter Rockwell.  This episode contains strong themes of violence. This is part one of a two-part episode.

TW: This podcast contains some discussions of rape. Join Lindsay as she discusses how women’s sexuality became the catalyst for a decade or more of Mormon violence, and the curious Victorian scandal involving Brigham Young’s daughter-in-law and a “Gentile” soldier. Links mentioned in this podcast: The must-read essay by historian William MacKinnon: Sex, Subalterns, and […]

Join Lindsay as she discusses what plural marriages did to prescribed family roles and how it affected the mental health of plural wives.    Links mentioned in this podcast: Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier By Mary Ellen Jones. The Wife I Want, 1893. Read the transcript of the episode here. h/t Kecia […]

Join Lindsay as she discusses how the practice of plural marriage evolved in early Mormon Utah in the 1850’s.Links mentioned in this podcast: Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the reading guide here. Buy the […]

Join Lindsay as she discusses the first public acknowledgement of polygamy, divorces and marriages, the Early Utah Period, and Blood Atonement. Links mentioned in this podcast: Read the transcript of this episode here. (h/t Kecia Gilliam) Sources for controversial sermons:  Journal of Discourses, vol.4, pp.49-51 Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, 1856, pp. 55-57 Dialogue:A Journal […]