Kidnapped from That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists
- ISBN-10
- 0874805287
- ISBN-13
- 9780874805284
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Author
- Martha Sonntag Bradley
Description
Tells the story of the 1953 raid of the polygamist community of Short Creek, Arizona with insight and compassion for the families that were fragmented by the arrests.
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