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Apr 20, 2014 · Here, six decades after Short Creek, LIFE.com offers a series of pictures — most of which never ran in LIFE — made by photographer Loomis Dean during a government raid on a small, isolated...
The Short Creek raid was an Arizona Department of Public Safety and Arizona National Guard action against Mormon fundamentalists that took place on the morning of July 26, 1953, at Short Creek, Arizona.
Apr 16, 2008 · In the middle of the night of July 26, 1953, Arizona officials and state police swooped in to arrest the entire town. Government leaders claimed they were acting on behalf of the state’s...
Feb 21, 2017 · There are photos of the 1944 polygamy trials in Salt Lake City. There's an even larger collection of the 1953 Arizona law enforcement raid of Short Creek.
Feb 16, 2014 · 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 fundamentalists who'd broken away from the church in order to live steadfastly — and illegally — in polygamy.
Jun 21, 2018 · A July 1953 photo of Short Creek, Arizona, where government agents raided the polygamy community and arrested 36 fathers and removed many of the town's children.
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Apr 5, 2023 · Short Creek was an isolated fundamentalist Mormon intentional community where locals practiced polygamy and communalism. It drew public attention due to a government raid in the 1950s and the imprisonment of its leader in the 2000s.
