Item Detail
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17848
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7
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English
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Short Creek : 'A Refuge for the Saints'
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2003
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36
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no.1
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71-87
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In the early 1930s, Utah polygamists increasingly desired to find a place where they could practice their beliefs unmolested. This desire became very important after the LDS Church initiated a new policy in 1933 to cooperate with the government in the "surveillance and prosecution of polygamists." Short Creek, Arizona, was established as a safe retreat and haven for the polygamists. National attention was drawn to Short Creek in 1935 to "report on the court trials of three men and three women for polygamy-related charges.
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