Samuel Ashton is seated in the doorway of his cabin in Kaysville, Utah, with his wife, Mary Bunting Ashton, standing behind his right shoulder, circa 1888. Mary’s three sisters, five nieces and nephews, and mother, Ann Slater Bunting, are also in the photograph.” The photographer’s friend, Andrew J. Russell, took a photograph at the same time and identified the photo as a polygamist family in his Union Pacific Railroad collection, but it does not depict a polygamist family.
Allen Wyatt takes a look at a recent book on the Gospel and polygamy in this, the most recent article published in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:
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