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Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847–1918. By Jeffrey Nichols. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. vii + 247 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

      This book describes one city's efforts to control organized prostitution first by toleration, then by regulation, and finally (and unsuccessfully) by abolition. This is a familiar nineteenth-century story, except for one thing: the city in question is Salt Lake City, capitol of Mormon Utah, where polygamy was a matter of church doctrine until 1890. . . .

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