01520cam a2200337 4500 371076342 TxAuBib 20101209120000.0 070104s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007000177 9781599957197 1599957191 (OCoLC)77573533 DLC DLC DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Spencer, Irene, 1937- Shattered dreams : my life as a polygamist's wife / Irene Spencer. 1st ed. New York : Center Street, 2007. viii, 385 p. : ill., geneal. table ; 24 cm. Irene Spencer provides an account of her experiences after following what she believed was God's leading to marry her brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron at the age of sixteen, becoming his second wife, and discusses their life after a government raid on their fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, forced them to flee to Mexico where they lived in squalor until she was able to take her children and make an escape to the outside world. Adult Follett Library Resources. 20080312. Spencer, Irene 1937- Mormon women Utah Biography. Mormon women Biography. Polygamy Utah. Mormon fundamentalism Utah. Mormon fundamentalism. Mormon families Utah. Mormon families.