By Martha S Bradley
Within the early morning hours of July 26, 1953, a number of hundred Arizona country officers and cops moved into the polygamist group of brief Creek, Arizona, to serve warrants on thirty-six males and eighty-six ladies. officers staging the raid believed they have been rescuing the community’s 263 kids from a lifetime of bondage and immorality.Kidnapped from that Land is the 1st ebook to assemble the tale of the 1953 raid and past raids in 1935 and 1944. Martha Bradley tells the tale with perception and compassion for the households that have been fragmented by means of the arrests. She additionally bargains with the complicated criminal concerns that persist in either Arizona and Utah, the place the perform of polygamy is a legal that's now not prosecuted.Kidnapped from that Land will entice these drawn to the examine of Mormon heritage, of polygamy, and of western neighborhood and American social historical past.
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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. 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.
Woolley, and Lorin C. 4 Byron Harvey Allred expressed the feeling of many fundamentalists that the leaders of the Mormon Church had begun a dangerous path toward apostasy: Page 20 A careful and prayerful study of the gospel as contained in those sacred documents, when compared with the teachings, practice, and gifts of the Latter Day Saint Church of today, has convinced me beyond the shadow of a doubt that this Church has apostatized, or turned away from many of the saving truths taught in those holy writings, and that the leaders of this Church have perverted the doctrines, changed the ordinances, rejected the fullness of the gospel, and broken the new and everlasting covenant.
Sifting the wheat from the chaff, plural marriage both confused and divided the members of the fledgling church into two camps: those who were willing to follow Joseph in all things, and those who were not. 5 Thereafter the future of plural marriage lay in the hands of yet another Mormon prophetBrigham Young. It would take two years for the Council of Twelve Apostles to decide which man to follow among those who claimed to succeed Joseph Smith. The Utah Mormons believe that the "mantle of the prophet" fell upon Brigham Youngthat he was, in other words, the Lord's choice.