‘Mormon Land’: Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy? What the evidence shows and why it matters. Really!

How often has this question been repeated? How tiring!

And if he had 100 women? Were these women staying voluntarily with Joseph Smith?

‘Mormon Land’: Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy? What the evidence shows and why it matters. Arguments and counterarguments • Two historians examine the documents, the motives, the words of Emma Smith, the testimony of the church founder’s purported plural wives, and how to ascertain the “truth.”

Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his purported wives, clockwise from top middle: first wife Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; Martha McBride (Knight Smith Kimball); Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde Smith); and Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs (Smith Young).