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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 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]
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 ...
Short Creek, located in what was then the Arizona Territory, soon became a gathering place for these Mormons. [6] Members of the community believed a statement published in 1912 by Lorin C. Woolley , of a purported 1886 divine revelation to then-LDS Church President John Taylor , took precedence over the 1890 Manifesto , which had prohibited ...
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 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 ...
Leroy Sunderland Johnson (June 12, 1888 – November 25, 1986), known as Uncle Roy, [4] [5] was a leader of the Mormon fundamentalist group in Short Creek, which later evolved into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), from the mid-1950s until his death.
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.