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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 .
Hildale, formerly known as Short Creek Community, was founded in 1913 [6] by members of the Council of Friends, a breakaway group from the Salt Lake City–based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [7] Hildale and its border city of Colorado City, Arizona, have an interwoven history with their shared claims of "Short Creek."
the Short Creek Community, residing in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, which after 1953 fractured into several Mormon fundamentalist groups the Short Creek raid , a 1953 Arizona state police and Arizona National Guard action against Mormon fundamentalists in the Short Creek Community
In 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 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]
The FLDS changed the name of the community to Colorado City (on the Arizona side of the border) and Hildale (on the Utah side) to eliminate any ties to the Short Creek raids. [8] In January 2004, local FLDS fundamentalist leader Warren Jeffs expelled a group of 20 men, including the mayor, and gave their wives and children to other men. [11]
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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.