Shattered Dreams
My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
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Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8902503M
- ISBN-139781599957197
- ISBN-101599957191
- OCLC Control Number77573533
- OCLC Control Numbershattereddreamsm00spen
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007000177
- Goodreads275893
- LibraryThing3238809
Classifications
- LCCBX8695.S759 A3 2007
Description
Irene Spencer did as she felt Godcommanded in marrying herbrother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becominghis second wife. When thegovernment raided the fundamentalist, polygamousMormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,Irene and her family fled toVerlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.They lived in squalor and desolateconditions in the Mexican desertwith Verlan's six brothers, one sister,and numerous wives and children.Readers will be appalled andastonished, but most amazingly,greatly inspired. Irene's dramaticstory reveals how far religion canbe stretched and abused and how one woman and herchildren found their way out, into truth and redemption.
Description
A polygamous wife from an Arizona Mormon community describes the beliefs that compelled her to become one of her brother-in-law's numerous wives, the desolate conditions endured by the family on a Mexican ranch, and her eventual escape with her children.
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