“polygamous wives”
Umm you DO realize that was outlawed in the 1800 before they were allowed to become a state don’t you?
Where are you getting your talking points from DU? Cause you sure sound like them these days.
Umm, read the post again.
#1...the "outlawing" of bigamy and polygamy NEVER stopped Mormon polygamy in the 1800s.
I know.
I'm a direct descendent of a Mormon polygamist.
Try reading B. Carmon Hardy's book, Solemn Covenant: THE MORMON POLYGAMOUS PASSAGE -- an excellent book.
Hardy also is descended from Lds polygamists.
Now what did happen is that Utah Territory realized they needed to "deal" with polygamy for a variety of reasons, including statehood ... and their "prophet" claimed it would be dealt with in his 1890 "manifesto."
If you read Hardy's appendix, you'll see he lists about 250 additional plural arrangements done 'tween 1890-1910...'twas 1907 -1910 period in which they finally started getting serious about stopping the solemnizing of additional plural unions.
But did you know that...
...(a) Mormonism did not have a monogamous "prophet" leading them until 1945????
...(b) And -- some of those "unions" that were quietly arranged in the early 1900s were still around until these people died in the early 1960s?
You see, Mormon leaders didn't break up existing polygamous arrangements; and -- as for additional arrangements -- it just went "underground" -- mostly to Mexico...for up to 20 years. (Then it went sideways -- the fLDS -- who are also "Mormon")