Short Creek, Utah-Arizona border
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GwenFormer FLDS Members Describe Warren Jeffs’s Control Over Short Creek Community
When polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church in 1890, splinter groups formed, including the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, whose members could practice “plural marriage” discreetly and...
Ex-FLDS Community in Arizona Faces Second Largest Measles Outbreak in the Country
The towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, collectively known as Short Creek, have long been associated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day...
