Kanes shared desire to help early Mormons

Published: Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 12:55 a.m. MST
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PROVO — Elizabeth Kane was an anti-polygamist, 36-year-old mother of four from Pennsylvania, hardly the picture of a woman who would pen a smartly written, balanced and fair travelogue about the home lives of Mormon polygamists in the 1870s.

But she did, and her book now is the foundation of fresh research that has uncovered two surprising facts about the period, two Utah authors said Wednesday during a lecture at Brigham Young University.

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