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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 ...
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 .
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).
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.
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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.
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 ...
Joseph Smith Jessop (January 25, 1869 – September 1, 1953) [1] was an early patriarch in the Mormon fundamentalist movement and, with John Y. Barlow, co-founder of Short Creek, Arizona (later Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah), home to the polygynous Short Creek Community. [2]