Martha H Bradley

Kidnapped from That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists (Publications in Mormon Studies)

In the early morning hours of July 26, 1953, several hundred Arizona state officials and police officers moved into the polygamist community of Short Creek, Arizona, to serve warrants on thirty-six men and eighty-six women. Officials staging the raid believed they were rescuing the community’s 263 c...

Plural Wife: The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred (Life Writings Frontier Women)

Mabel Finlayson Allred was a wife of Rulon Allred, leader of the Apostolic United Brethren, one of the major groups of fundamentalist Mormons who, since about the 1930s, have practiced plural marriage as separatists from the mainstream Latter-day Saints Church. Mabel’s autobiography maintains a mood...

Kidnapped From That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamist

In the early morning hours of July 26, 1953, several hundred Arizona state officials and police officers moved into the polygamist community of Short Creek, Arizona, to serve warrants on thirty-six men and eighty-six women. Officials staging the raid believed they were rescuing the community’s 263 c...

Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights

Almost from the beginning, the women’s movement has been divided into two factions–those wanting full equality with men (Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul) and those seeking legal protections for women’s particular needs (Julia Ward Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt). Early Utah leaders such as Relief Society Pres...

A history of Kane County ([Utah Centennial County history series])

A history of Beaver County ([Utah Centennial County history series])

Glorious in Persecution: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839-1844

Escaping imprisonment in Missouri in 1839, the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith quickly settled with family and followers on the Illinois banks of the Mississippi River. Under Smith’s direction, the small village of Commerce soon mushroomed into the boomtown of Nauvoo, home to 12,000 and more members of ...

From Pain 2 Poetry: The Bag...The Lady...The Experience (From Pain 2 Poetry: The Bag...The Lady...The Experience... Book 1)

Have you ever experienced something so devastating in your life that you feel no one else could have possibly gone through the same thing? Are you afraid to move towards your destiny because your fears are holding you back and weighing you down like “baggage”? From Pain 2 Poetry: The Bag…The Lady…Th...