Prologue: A trajectory of plurality : an overview of Joseph Smith's wives
Mormonism's first plural wife? : Fanny Alger (Smith Custer)
Wife of two martyrs : Lucinda Pendleton (Morgan Harris Smith)
"Nor much else but sorrow and affliction" : Louisa Beaman (Smith Young)
Nauvoo polyandry : Zina Diantha Huntington (Jacobs Smith Young)
An apostolic life : Presendia Lathrop Huntington (Buell Smith Kimball)
Levirate marriage : Agnes Moulton Coolbrith (Smith Smith Smith Pickett)
Mother and daughter : Patty Bartlett (Sessions Smith Parry) and Sylvia Porter Sessions (Lyon Smith Kimball Clark)
Miracle tale : Mary Elizabeth Rollins (Lightner Smith Young)
Apostle's wife : Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde Smith)
Mother in Israel : Elizabeth Davis (Goldsmith Brackenbury Durfee Smith Lott)
Relief Society counselor : Sarah Maryetta Kingsley (Howe Cleveland Smith Smith)
"Loving sisters" : Delcena Diadamia Johnson (Sherman Smith Babbitt) and Almera Woodward Johnson (Smith Barton)
Childless mother of mothers in Israel : Eliza Roxcy Snow (Smith Young)
"Great glory honner & eternal lives" : Sarah Ann Whitney (Smith [Kingsbury] Kimball)
"Like a wanderer" : Martha McBride (Knight Smith Kimball)
Gardener's wife : Ruth Daggett Vose (Sayers Smith)
Daughter of the pagan prophet : Flora Ann Woodworth (Smith Gore)
Latter-day Hagar : Emily Dow Partridge (Smith Young)
"Everything looks like desolation and lonesome" : Eliza Maria Partridge (Smith Lyman)
Proxy wife : Lucy Walker (Smith Kimball)
Dark sisters : Sarah Lawrence (Smith Kimball Mount) and Maria Lawrence (Smith [Young] Babbitt)
polygamy, melancholy, possession : Helen Mar Kimball (Smith Whitney)
Seamstress : Hannah S. Ells (Smith)
Relief Society treasurer : Elvira Annie Cowles (Holmes Smith)
"Tried in many ways" : Rhoda Richards (Smith Young)
"Quiet, unassuming, faithful" : Desdemona Catlin Wadsworth Fullmer (Smith Benson McLane)
Youthful supplication : Olive Grey Frost (Smith Young)
Aunt Melissa : Melissa Lott (Smith Bernhisel Willes)
Outline of a shadow : Nancy Maria Winchester (Smith Kimball Arnold)
True saint : Fanny Young (Carr Murray Smith).
