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Kidnapped from That Land

The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists

by Martha Sonntag Bradley

A history of the fundamentalist community at Short Creek on the Utah-Arizona border and of the government raids against it, especially the Arizona raid of 1953. Bradley examines the families' experience and the public reaction that made the raid a political failure.

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