Short Creek Community

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The Short Creek Community originally began in 1935 following the death of Joseph Leslie Broadbent, under the leadership of John Y. Barlow and Joseph W. Musser. Formerly located in Short Creek, Arizona (now Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah), the group was notorious for the practice of polygamy due to media coverage during the "Short Creek raids" of 1945 and 1953. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) later developed in the same geographical region and changed the name to Colorado City and Hildale to eliminate any ties to the Short Creek raids.[1]

After the death of Joseph W. Musser, the community split into three known groups. Those included the FLDS Church which stayed in Short Creek, the Apostolic United Brethren which relocated to Bluffdale, Utah, and the United Latter-day Church which relocated to Lexington, Nebraska and later Layton, Utah.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ A brief history of the polygamists in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah by Rick Ross, 5 April 2002, at website of The Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements
  2. ^ Lessons For the United Latter-day Church by Steven H. Tucker, pgs. 5 & 7-8, Published 2006 and distributed by the Uniformed Latter-day Commission.
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