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Short Creek Community. / 36.98944°N 112.97806°W / 36.98944; -112.97806. The Short Creek Community (now Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah ), founded in 1913, began as a small ranching town in the Arizona Strip. [ 1] In the 1930s it was settled by Mormon fundamentalists .
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [ 8]
The Short Creek raid was an Arizona Department of Public Safety and Arizona National Guard action against Mormon fundamentalists that took place on the morning of July 26, 1953, at Short Creek, Arizona. The Short Creek raid was the "largest mass arrest of polygamists in American history". [ 1] Law enforcement arrested polygamist men and removed ...
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (abbreviated to FLDS and not to be confused with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is a religious sect of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations [ 3][ 4] whose members practice polygamy. [ 5] It is variously defined as a cult, a sect, or a new religious movement.
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.
YFZ Ranch. Coordinates: 30.9215°N 100.5348°W. The FLDS temple in the YFZ Ranch. The Yearning for Zion Ranch, or the YFZ Ranch, [ 1] was a 1,700-acre (690-hectare) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community of as many as 700 people, located near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States.
The band led by Mormon frontman Brandon Flowers said in 2012 during the presidential election contest between Mitt Romney and Obama that they were “neutral,” but the band became more ...
Herman, Daniel J. (April 2012), "Arizona's Secret History: When Powerful Mormons Went Separate Ways", Common-place, 12 (3), American Antiquarian Society; Peterson, Charles Sharon (1967). Settlement on the Little Colorado, 1873–1900: a study of the processes and institutions of Mormon expansion (Ph. D. thesis). Dept. of History, University of ...