| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

Four Zinas. By Martha Sonntag Bradley and Mary Brown Firmage Woodward. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2000. Illustrations, index. xxv + 497 pp. $34.95.)

On a cold, rainy day in March 1846, Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young gave birth on the banks of the Chariton River. Two days later the wagons rolled on, but, Zina Diantha recalled, "I did not mind the hardship of my situation, for my life had been preserved, and my babe seemed so beautiful" (p. 149). It was a remarkably cheerful observation for a woman in her circumstances. Behind her was the death and destruction of Nauvoo; before her was the uncertainty of a new Zion in the wilderness of the American West. 1

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its prophets, and its leaders profoundly shaped the lives of the Zinas. Zina Huntington abandoned the comfortable life she and her family had created on the New York frontier. Zina Diantha was persuaded to leave the husband she loved, Henry Jacobs, to be sealed to Joseph Smith. She returned to Jacobs after Smith's death, but left him again to become one of Brigham Young's plural wives. Zina Young, the daughter of Zina Diantha and Brigham Young, left comfort and familiarity behind to follow her polygamous husband to Canada, where they could live beyond the reach of federal marshals. Zina Card sacrificed the comfort of family and familiar surroundings to follow her husband when he answered the call of the Mormon Church. . . .

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