“I Would Not Risk My Salvation to Any Man”: Eliza R. Snow’s Challenge to Salvific Coverture

BROOKE R. LEFEVRE received a BS in psychology from Brigham Young University and is currently working on her MA in history at Utah State University. Her thesis is examining the diary of Elizabeth Pickett Tolman, a nineteenth-century polygamous wife and the intersection of polygamy and infertility. She worked at the Church History Library on The Discourses of Eliza R. Snow where she recognized this trend in Snow’s teaching.