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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first ...
An isolated spot along the Utah-Arizona state line, “Short Creek," as Colorado City and Hildale are collectively known, was run via virtual theocracy for decades.
The Polygamists: A History of Colorado City, Arizona. Agreka Books. ISBN 9781888106749. Jeffs, Brent W. (2010). Lost Boy: The True Story of One Man's Exile from a Polygamist Cult and His Brave Journey to Reclaim His Life. Broadway Books. ISBN 9780767931786. Johnson, Leroy S. (1983–1984). The L. S. Johnson Sermons, 7 vols.
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 .