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The Polygamists: A History of Colorado City, Arizona (2004) Tracy, Kathleen. The Secret Story of Polygamy (2001). Centered on the trial of John Daniel Kingston, who was tried for assault on his 16-year-old daughter. Llewellyn, John R. Polygamy Under Attack: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell (2004) Dan Simon & Amanda Townsend (September 7 ...
Flora is the cousin-by-marriage of Carolyn Jessop, another former FLDS member who wrote Escape, an autobiographical account of her upbringing in the polygamist sect and later flight from that community. [5] Flora has been active since the early 2000s in anti-child abuse work, mainly focusing on the plight of women and children in the FLDS.
The film is a dramatization loosely based upon the 1953 Short Creek raid that had occurred in Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, United States, collectively known as "Short Creek," a community of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a group that practices child marriage and polygamy.
Rulon Timpson Jeffs (December 6, 1909 – September 8, 2002), known to followers as Uncle Rulon, was an American polygamist and religious leader who served as the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), a Mormon fundamentalist organization based in Colorado City, Arizona, United States, from 1986 until his death in 2002. [1]
In June 2014, the Arizona Office of the Attorney General filed a motion [70] in U.S. District Court seeking to dissolve the local police forces and "the disbandment of the Colorado City, Arizona/Hildale, Utah Marshal's Office and the appointment of a federal monitor over municipal functions and services." As the basis for the legal proceeding ...
Benjamin Bistline. Benjamin "Ben" Granger Bistline (21 April 1935 – 25 June 2016) was an American historian of Mormon fundamentalism in Short Creek, a community of which he was a part. Bistline wrote a book which documented the polygamists living in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, and the creation of the Fundamentalist Church of ...
Polygamy is defined as the practice or condition of one person having more than one spouse at the same time, conventionally referring to a situation where all spouses know about each other, in contrast to bigamy, where two or more spouses are usually unaware of each other. [ 3] Polyandry is the name of the practice or condition when one female ...
Colorado City is located in northeastern Mohave County at 36°59′25″N 112°58′33″W (36.99026, −112.97577) Its northern border is the Arizona – Utah state line, with the town of Hildale, Utah, to the north. Arizona State Route 389 passes through the center of town, leading east 31 miles (50 km) to Fredonia.