Brigham Young and unknown wife. Herridge is moving ahead with his efforts to try to prove a hypothesis he has about the image: that the woman is a previously unknown wife of the revered church leader.

A Daguerreotype known in historical archives as "Brigham Young and Unknown Wife" shows the founder of the state of Utah with one of his wives. The woman's face has literally been erased from history.

Tribune guest columnist Michael O'Brien explores the LDS leader Brigham Young's purported proposal to be sealed to a Catholic nun. Did LDS prophet Brigham Young ask a Catholic nun to be his 28th wife?

brigham young's heirs.; threatened scrambling for his property. the elaborate list of his wives, and their sons and daughters--his various and varying regard for them. share full article.

Rare pictures of Brigham Young abound in the book 'Brigham Young Images of a Mormon Prophet,' by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and R.Q. Shupe''s. 'These are all the visual images during his lifetime.

Writer David Ebershoff's novel, "The 19th Wife," is two stories: one based on the life of Ann Eliza Young, one of Mormon leader Brigham Young's 19 wives who divorced him and became a crusader ...

Closing the book after reading, “Brigham Young: ... Brigham Young was known for his compassion and openness as a Mormon apostle. Turner recounts his tender, love-filled letters to his wife, ...

Officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have revamped and rededicated the final resting place of pioneer-prophet Brigham Young </a>and several members of his vast family.

June 14, 1842: Having learned about plural marriage from Joseph Smith, Brigham Young marries the first of his polygamous wives, Lucy Ann Decker Seeley, at age 41 (Decker was 20).