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Mormon Fundamentalist Leaders: Warren Jeffs, Ervil Lebaron, Joseph White Musser, Benjamin Lebaron, John W. Woolley |
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English |
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Paperback |
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112 |
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2010-05-06 |
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1155675169 |
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Books LLC |
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0.38 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.24 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Warren Jeffs, Ervil Lebaron, Joseph White Musser, Benjamin Lebaron, John W. Woolley, List of Mormon Fundamentalist Leaders, John Ortell Kingston, Merril Jessop, Alex Joseph, Rulon C. Allred, Wendell Loy Nielsen, Charles W. Kingston, John W. Bryant, Lorin C. Woolley, Joel Lebaron, J. Leslie Broadbent, John Y. Barlow, Owen A. Allred, Charles Zitting, William E. Jessop, Willie Jessop, Rulon Jeffs, Leroy S. Johnson, Paul Elden Kingston, Winston Blackmore, J. Lamoine Jenson, Elden Kingston, James D. Harmston. Excerpt: Alex Joseph (1936 September 27, 1998) (born Alec Richard Joseph ; also referred to as Ronald Ellison ) was a Mormon fundamentalist leader and founder of the Confederate Nations of Israel . As mayor of Big Water , Utah , Joseph was the first Libertarian mayor of a community in the United States . Mormon fundamentalism Joseph was not raised in the Greek Orthodox Church , but was baptized into it in his late teens. He became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1965. In 1969, he abandoned the LDS Church and joined a group of Mormon fundamentalists under the leadership of Rulon C. Allred in Pinesdale , Montana . In time, he convinced four students at the University of Montana to marry him and become his plural wives . His wives were not Latter Day Saints ; rather, two were Roman Catholics , one was a Methodist , and one was a Presbyterian . The parents of the students were outraged and confronted Allred with their displeasure. Joseph was unrepentant and eventually was asked by Allred to leave the colony in Montana. Big Water and Confederate Nations of Israel Joseph and his wives moved to Kane County, Utah to a deserted settlement known as Glen Canyon City; Joseph renamed the settlement Big Water in 1983. Joseph became the first mayor ...
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