| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America. By Sarah Barringer Gordon. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv + 337 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

A generation ago, Patricia Nelson Limerick called upon the profession to include Mormons in the western history canon. This book joins others, like D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (Urbana, IL, 1997) and the re-issue of John Gerassi's The Boys of Boise (Seattle, 2001), heeding the call, but puts Mormon struggle for "The Principle" of polygamy in an American constitutional context. 1

Gordon adds important facts to the well-worn narrative of Mormon deliverance. She places anti-Mormon pulp novels in popular culture, textures the opposition with concerns about the family and divorce, and analyzes Reynolds v. United States (1879) in terms of the "(un) faithful constitution" (pp. 22138). . . .

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