Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue, 1857-1858-A. G. Browne's The Ward of the Three Guardians

Tanner Trust Fund and J. Willard Marriott Library

Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy rescues an exciting true tale of international intrigue from 150 years of neglect. It tells of the travails of Henrietta Polydore, a young Anglo-Italian girl spirited out of an English Catholic convent school in 1854 and bundled across the Atlantic, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountains by her Mormon-convert mother and aunt to live in Salt Lake City under an alias in the polygamous household of a Latter-day Sa...