OCR Text |
Show PROLOGUE In October of 1890, the Mormon Church approved a Manifesto abolishing the practice of polygamy. Hundreds of Mormon marri ages were thereby dissolved, thousands of children bastardized, and innumerable hearts broken. Thirteen years later, my grandfather, Byron Harvey Allred, Jr., gave up his holdings in Star Valley, Wyoming, and with his wife and children, boarded a train bound for a polygamist-refu-gee colony in Mexico. In Logan, Utah, the train paused for Grandfather's fiance, Mary Evelyn Clark, a fourteen-year-old girl who was to become his second wife and, eventually, my grandmother. On the train, Grandfather chose to sit by the young woman, reasoning that she needed him most, because she'd had quite an upset; while traveling to meet him, a taxi driver, tried to rape |