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In the early morning hours of July 26, 1953, several hundred Arizona state officials and police officers moved into the polygamist community of Short Creek, Arizona, to serve warrants on thirty-six men and eighty-six women. Officials staging the raid believed they were rescuing the communitys 263 children from a life of bondage and immorality.Kidnapped from that Land is the first book to bring together the story of the 1953 raid and two previous raids in 1935 and 1944. Martha Bradley tells the story with insight and compassion for the families that were fragmented by the arrests. She also deals with the complex legal issues that persist in both Arizona and Utah, where the practice of polygamy is a felony that is no longer prosecuted.Kidnapped from that Land will appeal to those interested in the study of Mormon history, of polygamy, and of western regional and American social history.
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Volume Nine, Publications in Mormon Studies Linda King Newell, editor
First paperback printing 1996 ISBN 0-87480-528-7
Copyright 1993 University of Utah Press All rights reserved.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bradley, Martha Sonntag. Kidnapped from that land : the government raids on the polygamists of Short Creek / Martha Sonntag Bradley. p. cm.-(Publications in Mormon studies ; v. 9) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87480-415-9 (acid-free paper) 1. Mormon FundamentalismArizonaColorado CityHistory. 2. Mormon FundamentalismUtah-HildaleHistory. 3. Polygamy UtahHildaleHistory. 4. PolygamyArizonaColorado City History. 5. PersecutionArizonaColorado CityHistory20th century. 6. PersecutionUtahHildaleHistory20th century. 7. Colorado City (Ariz.)Church history. 8. Hildale (Utah)Church history. I. Title. II. Series. BX8680.M534C63 1993 289.3'79159dc20 93-8293
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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged down our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Psalm 137
Page v
Contents
Preface
ix
1. Mormon Polygamy: A Historical Overview, 1830-1890
1
2. The Roots of Modern-Day Fundamentalism, 1896-1935
18
3. Short Creek: First Settlements, 1860-1935
40
4. The Search for Refuge and the First Raid, 1935
48
5. The Boyden Raid and Prosecutions, 1944-1950
64
6. The Aftermath of the 1944 Raid
86
7. The Women of Fundamentalism
97
8. Howard Pyle and the Raid of 1953
112
Photograph section following page
126
9. The "Capture" of Short Creek
127
10. The Legal Experience
148
11. Denouement: The Black Case, 1954
160
12. Short Creek in 1992
182
Appendix A. Fundamentalist Families Involved in the 1953 Raid
196
Appendix B. Statement by Arizona Governor Howard Pyle
207
Notes to Chapters
214
Bibliography
243
Index
253
Page vii
Preface
At 4:00 A.M. on 26 July 1953, a night of an eclipsed moon, Arizona state officials and police officers moved through the darkness to begin an armed invasion of the tiny village of Short Creek in the isolated area north of the Grand Canyon. The village was inhabited by a group of people, nearly all of them of Mormon antecedents but repudiated and excommunicated by their church. The crime of these American citizens? They were living plural marriage.
At 9:00 A.M. that same morning, Arizona's Governor Howard Pyle intoned solemnly over KTAR radio:
Before dawn today the State of Arizona began and now has substantially concluded a momentous police action against insurrection within its own borders.
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