Brigham Young and Emma Hale Smith.
USHS collections.
The Lion and the Lady: Brigham Young and Emma Smith BY VALEEN TIPPETTS AVERY AND LINDA KING NEWELL
L / U R I N G THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY BRIGHAM Y O U N G ' S
influential
power grew until it was felt throughout the western areas of the United States. For the most part his followers revered him and his enemies kept a respectful distance, yet to his extreme annoyance he was never successful in extending that same influential power over Emma Smith. She neither revered him nor kept her adult sons a respectful distance from him, and her opposition plagued him from the time he became head of Mrs. Valeen Tippetts Avery and Mrs. Linda King Newell are coauthors of a forthcoming book about Emma Smith to be published by Doubleday.
