In 1953, Arizona law-enforcement officials descended on the Short Creek community on the Arizona-Utah border and took nearly 400 Mormon fundamentalists, including 236 children, into custody.

"Short Creek", as residents call the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, was for decades steered by the tight control of a select group of polygamous religious leaders.

"Short Creek", as residents call the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, was for decades steered by the tight control of a select group of polygamous religious leaders.

Just before dawn on July 26, 1953, Arizona law enforcement launched what has since become known as the Short Creek Raid: the arrest of men and women in an isolated community of Mormon ...

Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah together are known as Short Creek, an isolated community where many followers of the FLDS church live. Credit: George Frey The strategy worked. By the time ...

Hildale and neighboring Colorado City — just across the border in Arizona — made up the community of Short Creek, the headquarters of one of America’s most extreme religious sects ...

Arizona National Guard soldiers and state police officers raid a community of about 400 members of a Mormon sect in Short Creek, the largest mass arrest of polygamists in U.S. history. More than ...

"Arizona insurance likes the funding to stay ... traveling that far just was not a viable option for families living in Short Creek. What that means, Adams says, is that plenty of the people ...

But now, Arizona and Utah authorities have put the ... which was formerly called Short Creek. State and local officials are also troubled by what appears to be an extreme mixing of church and ...