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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 .
The Short Creek raid was the "largest mass arrest of polygamists in American history". [1] Law enforcement arrested polygamist men and removed children from their families. Arizona governor John Howard Pyle had invited journalists to view the raid, and the resulting media coverage from multiple outlets was negative, criticizing the raid's ...
Short Creek, West Virginia; Short Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio; Short Creek, Arizona, now known as Colorado City, Arizona; 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 ...
Colorado City, formerly known as "Short Creek" (or the Short Creek Community), was founded in 1913 [8] 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).
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) traces its claim to spiritual authority to when Brigham Young, then-president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), once visited the Short Creek Community and said, "This will someday be the head and not the tail of the church.
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.
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."
Short Creek is an unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States. [1] Geography. Short Creek is located at the junction of KY 54 and KY 79 ...