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Richard Alan Nelson. “Commercial Propaganda in the Silent Film: A Case Study of ‘A Mormon Maid’ (1917),” Film History, vol. 1, no. 2 (1987), 149-162.
“A Mormon Maid” was one of those stories with such an unbelievable and unattractive plot that you have to wonder how it ever found an audience, regardless of how anybody felt about the Mormons:
Dora and her parents, non-Mormons, pioneered the West during the time of Brigham Young. A party of Mormons goes out to greet newly arrived converts who are coming by a route that passes the cabin of Dora and her parents. The Mormons become aware that Indians are about to attack the cabin, and one of their number, Tom, is sent to warn Dora’s family. Dora (who instantly falls in love with Tom) and her father are willing to accept the protection of the Mormons, but her mother refuses: “I’ll take my chances with the Indians, not with Mormons.”