Two's Company; Three's A Crowd

This is an awe-inspiring, faith-promoting, testimony building story about Swedish immigrants who forsake their homeland and religion to join the Mormon Church in the nineteenth century. To gain some relief from the inordinate amount of work required of pioneer woman, Christena, John's first wife, allows her husband to take a second wife, Johanna. Christena soon finds that her physical stress is replaced with emotional upheaval. Just as John's two families learn to live together in harmony, they are forced to separate by a non-Mormon "crusade" designed to stamp out polygamy. Johanna and her children are forced to live in a log cabin to keep John from being arrested because of newly formulated anti-polygamy legislation.