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The Last Called Mormon Colonization - Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin (Hardcover)
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The Last Called Mormon Colonization - Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin (Hardcover)
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More than three hundred Latter-day Saint settlements were founded
by LDS Church President Brigham Young. Colonization—often outside
of Utah—continued under the next three LDS Church presidents,
fueled by Utah’s overpopulation relative to its arable,
productive land. In this book, John Gary Maxwell takes a
detailed look at the Bighorn Basin colonization of
1900–1901, placing it in the political and socioeconomic
climate of the time while examining whether the move to this
out-of-the-way frontier was motivated in part by the desire
to practice polygamy unnoticed. The LDS Church officially abandoned
polygamy in 1890, but evidence that the practice was still
tolerated (if not officially sanctioned) by the church
circulated widely, resulting in intense investigations by the
U.S. Senate. In 1896 Abraham Owen Woodruff, a rising star
in LDS leadership and an ardent believer in polygamy,
was appointed to head the LDS Colonization Company.
Maxwell explores whether under Woodruff’s leadership the
Bighorn Basin colony was intended as a means to insure the
secret survival of polygamy and if his untimely death in
1904, together with the excommunication of two equally
dedicated proponents of polygamy—Apostles John
Whitaker Taylor and Matthias Foss Cowley—led to its
collapse. Maxwell also details how Mormon settlers in
Wyoming struggled with finance, irrigation, and farming and
how they brought the same violence to indigenous
peoples over land and other rights as did non-Mormons. The
1900 Bighorn Basin colonization provides an
early twentieth-century example of a Mormon syndicate
operating at the intersection of religious conformity,
polygamy, nepotism, kinship, corporate business ventures,
wealth, and high priesthood status. Maxwell offers evidence
that although in many ways the Bighorn Basin colonization
failed, Owen Woodruff’s prophecy remains unbroken: “No
year will ever pass, from now until the coming of the Savior,
when children will not be born in plural marriage.”
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