Episode 187: The 19th Wife

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ann Eliza Webb Dee Young Denning was married for a time to Brigham Young. After a tumultuous experience with Mormonism, she left the territory and wrote an expose titled, “Wife No. 19, or The Story of a Life in Bondage,” about her […]

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0:00.0	I'm How did I not see this coming?
0:33.4	Hello and welcome back to another episode of your epilominy.
0:36.8	I'm your host, Lindsay, and I am happy to be bringing on my good friend Brian Buchanan.
0:43.3	Say hello, Brian.
0:44.3	Hello, everybody.
0:45.3	It's not like you don't get to hear from me enough, but I'm back.
0:48.8	Now, Brian and I are spending most of our time podcasting for the Sunstone Mormon history podcast. So if you are
0:56.3	not enjoying the hiatus for a year of polygmy, there's big gaps in between. Just roll on over to
1:02.1	sunstone.org where Brian and I share the delightful tales of Mormonism. You can binge all sorts of
1:08.3	fun things so far. Well, we were just talking earlier because we're trying to do a sort of chronological order
1:14.4	like I did with your polygamy only on a broader sense, not just polygamy focused.
1:18.7	And I just, it's taking all that I have to wait to get to the Utah right, because that's my
1:24.1	favorite part.
1:24.7	We're in Navu right now.
1:26.5	We skipped over Missouri pretty
1:28.3	quickly. Sorry about that. We might retroactively go back and put some stuff. If you love Missouri,
1:33.9	you're not going to be real happy with us. But if you love Utah and New Mormon history,
1:38.7	we've got good stuff coming. But anyway, I brought Brian on here because one of the questions I get asked all the time, and I talked about this on TikTok, yes, I have a TikTok, you can follow me on TikTok if you want to see me do stupid videos.
1:51.2	Or from BYU.
1:52.3	Yeah, Brian and I were such Mormon nerds that we have a lot of fun videos, deep dives into Mormon history.
1:59.8	But one of the things that people
2:00.9	ask me a lot is how accurate is the book, The 19th Wife? Bo hiss. I get asked that all the time.
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