Shattered Dreams
My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
by Irene Spencer
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A polygamous wife from an Arizona Mormon community describes the beliefs that compelled her to become one of her brother-in-law's numerous wives, the desolate conditions endured by the family on a Mexican ranch, and her eventual escape with her children.
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Shattered Dreams: Surviving the Hell of a Polygamous Marriage
2012, Hodder & Stoughton
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
2008, Center Street
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Shattered Dreams: My Life As a Polygamist's Wife (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)
February 6, 2008, Thorndike Press
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
December 1, 2007, Tantor Media
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
August 22, 2007, Center Street
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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 and herchildren found their way out, into truth and redemption.
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