Here are two photos from the Salt Lake Tribune archives, taken after the 1944 prosecutions of a group of Fundamentalists on polygamy-related charges. I think the photos are from 1945, when the men were jailed. A problem: Our photos don’t have any caption information. Do you know who these men are? If you are willing [...]

Here are several more photos found in the Tribune archives. The original captions, included here, are nearly as good as the photographs!

The photo editor was looking through the Tribune archives and found a file marked “polygamists.” Inside were photos from 1944-45, when 15 men were charged with various crimes related to polygamy. They are a famous — infamous? — group. The men shown in this photograph are: Left to right, front row: Joseph White Musser; Joseph [...]

I thought this comment, which I recently came across, was interesting given the debates about marriage taking place in California, Canada and elsewhere: “It may happen that some young Mormon, three generations removed from any polygamous ancestor, will do a thesis for his doctorate in defense of plural marriage. With what gloating will he point [...]

From an article by Elizabeth Weingarten in The Atlantic about  a group of young men in Saudi Arabia who are pushing for a renewed interest in polygamy to solve the problem of too many, older unmarried women: “Polygamy’s time is over,” said Thomas Lippman, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “People [...]

Here is a transcript of the press conference that took place on June 23, 2010, after the trial and sentencing of Abram Harker Jeffs. It was provided to me by Steven Anderson from Marfa Public Radio. Thanks Steve! Statements to the Press Abram Harker Jeffs Trial June 23, 2010 Eric Nichols:  Alright guys, gather around.  [...]

I came across this today and thought I would share it, assuming many of you missed  this speech by Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s speech. He gave it on Feb. 6, 2009,  at the Non-State Governance Symposium at the University of Utah’s  S.J. Quinney College of Law. It was published in the law school’s review journal. Here [...]

I recently filed a public records request related to a May 24 dispute over use of a field at Berry Knoll. Included in those records was an audio recording of a “discussion” that took place between Seth Cooke, a member of the UEP Trust Housing Advisory Board, David Shane Stubbs and Helaman Barlow, a deputy [...]

The latest edition of the “UEP Trust Beneficiary Update” was distributed to residents of the twin towns a few weeks ago and showed up this week on the FLDS Texas website. Curiously, there aren’t any issues of the “Update” on the UEP Trust’s website, which would seem a logical place for the fiduciary to post [...]

In case you missed this recent cartoon: Doonesbury