Description

Mary Ettie V. Smith gives a narrative of her fifteen years as a Mormon, living in Nauvoo, then later in Utah. She tells of the early struggles with polygamy, denials by the leaders that it was practiced, and how she was coerced into a plural marriage, plus the details of life among the Mormons.

Table of Contents

Chapter

1. My Birth and Parentage
2. A Storm Gathering
3. Death of the Prophet
4. Endowments
5. The Exodus
6. A Night with the Dead and the Wolves
7. Seeking my Mother
8. Among the Gentiles
9. More Wives
10. Reconciled—Finding my Mother
11. The Family Broken Up
12. The Parting—Crossing the Tankio
13. Offer of Marriage—Setting out for "Zion"
14. Great Salt Lake City, Utah
15. Church Polity
16. Reuben P. Smith's Arrival—Narrow Escape from becoming a "Spiritual"
17. "Sealed" to the Butcher for Eternity—A Fearful Discovery
18. The Escape
19. My Father's Friend—Dr. Roberts
20. Preparing to Entrap an Old Man
21. Robbery and Probable Murder of Dr. Roberts
22. Sealed for Time
23. Intrigues of Brigham Young
24. The Story of Wallace Alonzo Clark Bowman
25. Fate of Bowman
26. Mormon Jesuitism
27. The Story of William Mac
28. Milking a Gentile
29. Punishment of Heresy
30. Tooille
31. The Flight and Recapture
32. Hope
33. Going to the Land of my Birth
34. Crossing the Webber—Perils by the Way
35. Crossing the Plains
36. Conclusion