{"product_id":"9781491874233","title":"Maud's Story: With entire sections in her own words","description":"Maud’s Story—  A Modern Cain and Abel Story  A life she termed “half joy and half sorrow.”   • Born to parents who had childhood memories of the Civil War, Maud’s life began in 1892, just two years after the Mormon Church Manifesto had forbidden plural marriage.  • Educated in the LDS High School in Salt Lake City, she, paradoxically, gained a love for that controversial principle.  • In Salt Lake Maud read newspaper reports telling that President Joseph F. Smith had paid a $500 fine for a son who was born years after the Manifesto; yet the church continued to deny its practice.  • She married Dayer LeBaron, helped him get a plural wife, fled to Mexico to avoid his arrest, and continued giving birth to children.  • Dayer’s family lived nearly twenty years in Colonia Juarez, ostracized for living plural marriage, in a town that early Mormons had made as a place of refuge for polygamists.  • With grown sons Maud and Dayer left the Mormon colony to pioneer a remote area on homestead land. There her son Joel began a church and became the beloved leader of a new community.  • Ervil, a younger brother, enraged at Joel’ success, no longer supported him and ….  • A modern Cain and Abel story ensued, breaking Maud’s heart.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107726835952,"sku":"9781491874233","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781491874233_p0.jpg?v=1763661033","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781491874233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}