Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87
Language: English
Published by Univ of Illinois Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 1993
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First Edition. Hardcover, dust jacket, 256 pp, b&w photos, slight rubbing to jacket, else a clean and near fine copy.
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- Title
- Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87
- Author
- Clawson, Rudger
- Publisher
- Univ of Illinois Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0252018613
- ISBN 13
- 9780252018619
- Edition
- First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Americana, History, Mormonism
His memoirs of three years as a "cohab" in the Utah Territorial Penitentiary are published here for the first time. They reflect the pride Mormon polygamists felt at being "prisoners for conscience sake," and they include discussions of Mormon doctrines, accounts of daring prison escapes, details of prison life, and the sense of a husband's frustration at being separated from his plural wife. Clawson's memoirs highlight his ability as a storyteller and, in passages dealing with his feelings about African-American prison inmates, confirm his racist attitudes.
Stan Larson's fascinating volume includes a selection of Clawson's love letters to his plural wife, Lydia; appendixes containing Clawson's 1884 prison journal, lists of Mormon polygamists imprisoned in the Utah Penitentiary and of Clawson's families; and a bibliography of various diaries, journals, and autobiographies of Mormon polygamists held in the Utah prison.
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