Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
By Irene Spencer.
Description
Irene Spencer did as she felt Godcommanded in marrying herbrother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becominghis second wife. When thegovernment raided the fundamentalist, polygamousMormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,Irene and her family fled toVerlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.They lived in squalor and desolateconditions in the Mexican desertwith Verlan's six brothers, one sister,and numerous wives and children.Readers will be appalled andastonished, but most amazingly,greatly inspired. Irene's dramaticstory reveals how far religion canbe stretched and abused and how one woman a...
ISBN(s)
1599957191, 9781599957197
