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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 ...
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."
In May 1935, members of the Council of Friends, a group of fundamentalists excommunicated from the Salt Lake City–based the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), sent a handful of followers to the Short Creek Community with the express purpose of building "a branch of the Kingdom of God."
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 ...
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 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.
The rest of the world got another strange and fascinating glimpse into the secret lives of Warren Jeffs' sect of polygamist Mormons this week. The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting on new court ...
Bistline wrote The Polygamists: A History of Colorado City, Arizona, which he self-published in 1998. Agreka Books republished it as a 432-page paperback in February 2004, [ 5 ] and later issued a condensed, 236-page version, titled Colorado City Polygamists: An Inside Look for the Outsider .