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Heber C. Kimball says missionaries are "picking out the prettiest women."

A FAIR Analysis of: The Lion of the Lord, a work by author: Stanley P. Hirshson

Source(s) of the criticism

Critical sources	Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (Moody Press, 1979), 225.( Index of claims ) From Our Own Correspondents, "FROM UTAH.; Polygamy and its Fruits--The Missionaries--The Pony Express--More Pugnacious Preaching--Death of a Prominent Physician--The Season," The New York Times (17 April 1860). Stanley P. Hirshson, The Lion of the Lord, a Biography of Brigham Young (New York: Knopf, 1968), 129-130. (citing New York Times) MormonThink.com website (as of 28 April 2012). Page: http://mormonthink.com/joseph-smith-polygamy.htm (citing Hirshon)

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