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Book Review
One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 18081894.
By Ronald O. Barney. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001. xxi
+ 402 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.)
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Lewis Barney may not have been a member of the Mormon hierarchy, but he was never common. From his 1840 baptism in Illinois to his 1894 death in northwest Colorado, Barney wandered the western Mormon landscape struggling to establish an earthly patriarchal kingdom but failing to find the land and basic resources that would support his two wives and many children. The arid West refused to give place to such agrarian utopias. In spite of repeated failures, Lewis Barney never lost his vision of a family kingdom and his commitment to the religious beliefs on which it was based. |
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