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She called The Tribune an ‘abominable sheet’ — Why this ‘brave’ LDS woman went to prison during polygamy raids

Belle Harris did time with her baby son. Now you can read her words.

(Church History Library) Isabelle Maria Harris and her son Horace Merrill were photographed at the Salt Lake City studio of Charles R. Savage around the time of their confinement in the Utah Territorial Penitentiary. Harris was imprisoned from May 18 to Aug. 31, 1883, after being convicted of contempt of court; young Horace was allowed to stay with his mother in the penitentiary and spent his first birthday there.