Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 51, Number 2, 1983

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'Arrest of the bashful but muchly married Brother Handy" illustrated former marshal Fred E. Bennett's 1887 expose of Mormon polygamy.

"Hide and Seek": Children on the Underground BY MARTHA SONNTAG BRADLEY

T h e n came the days when the Edmunds Law was in evidence . . . and the polygamous families were hounded till their lives were a weary drag to many of them. X H E EDMUNDS AND EDMUNDS-TUCKER ACTS OPENED a

long season of trouble for polygamous men and their wives that fell with equal force upon the heads of their children. The Congress of the United States had by 1890 passed a series of bills designed to destroy the Mrs. Bradley is a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah. 'Flora Estella Rogers, Autobiography, 1870-1897, LDS Church Library Archives, Salt Lake City.


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