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Jeffs and other leaders were arrested in raids in Salt Lake City, Utah and the community of Short Creek where they live -- which comprises the towns of the Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona ...
Short Creek was renamed Colorado City in 1960. In 1991, the Mormon fundamentalists at Colorado City formally established the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church). The members of the sect did not face any prosecutions for its polygamous behavior until the late 1990s, when isolated individuals began to be ...
The Short Creek Community (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 .
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A California businessman accused of leading a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme was actually being used by a Utah polygamist who didn't want to share the proceeds with his community, a ...
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.
Most FLDS members live in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, about 350 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, with other communities in Canada, Texas, North Dakota, and other areas of the North American west. In 1998, about 40,000 people living in Utah were part of a polygamist family, or about 1.4 percent of the population. [44]