Buried Alive!

Excerpt

The harem system, where eighty wives or more lived under one roof, or divan--the parent abode--had not, at the time of which we speak, been introduced. Mormonism, in its open defiance of the world, was not the hideous thing it is now--shameless, reckless, vile--beyond power of description. But even in its early days, when polygamy was restricted to two, or, at most, three wives, it was revolting enough.