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The following is a list of Special Collections & archives material about Fundamentalist Latter-day Saint sects, particularly the Hildale-Colorado City community. More material is available for check out in Library Stacks.
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Fundamentalist Latter-day Saint material
FLDS Revelations by Warren Jeffs
Accession Number: 1900-060
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FLDS clippings
Accession Number: 1900-132 (will be WASH 067)
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Newspaper clippings about the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saint community in Hildale / Colorado City.
Warren S. Jeffs collection/FLDS Teachings
Accession Number: 2012-003 (will be WASH 077)
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100 cassettes, only 5 hours digitized; full inventory available upon request
Juanita Brooks Lecture Series
Collection Number: UA 025
Twentieth Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah by Ken Driggs, 1990-01-03
- Collier's. Vol. 132, no. 12 (November 13, 1953)Call Number: AP 2 .C65 1953, V. 132 N.12 (oversize)Publication Date: 1953“Why I have five wives : a Mormon Fundamentalist tells his story.”
"Arizona raided Short Creek - why? There's no penalty for polygamy in Arizona - but officials claim they found plenty of ground for action" - Pageant. Vol. 9, no. 6 (December 1953) byCall Number: AP 2 .P2434 1953, V. 9 N.6Publication Date: 1953“The strange affair at Short Creek.”
- A study of protest to adaptation byCall Number: BX 8611 .D3 1963Publication Date: 1963"A study of Short Creek, Arizona."
- I have six wives byCall Number: BX 8641 .T3 1953Publication Date: 1953"'MacRoy Byers' has six wives and twenty-six children. Because of them he has served one prison sentence and when Short Creek, Arizona, was raided last July, he came very near being caught again. This is his story."
- The coming crisis : how to meet it 4th ed. rev. byCall Number: BX 8680 .F863 C665 2011Publication Date: c2011, c1993 (4th ed. rev.)
- Continued Warnings of Son Ahman to the Leaders of the Nations of the Earth byCall Number: BX 8680 .F863 C668 2011ISBN: 9781937271008Publication Date: 2011-05-18
- Prepare for the day of visitation byCall Number: BX 8680 .F863 P747 2011Publication Date: c2011.Great changes are coming on this land -- We will not be able to hold meetings -- Conditions resulting from the judgments -- Nerves of steel will be required -- "Will there be any faith left?" -- Great events will take place around the year 2000 A.D. -- Now is our only time to prepare and repent -- We must be lifted up to be protected -- "Keep sweet" is our only protection.
- A Proclamation to the Bovernment Officials of the United States of America and to the Government Officials of Canada byCall Number: BX 8680 .F863 P763 2010ISBN: 9781937271015Publication Date: 2010-07-17
- "This will someday be the head and not the tail of the Church" : a history of the Mormon Fundamentalists at Short Creek byCall Number: BX 8680 .F863 T457 2001Publication Date: 2001.Discusses the history of the Mormon Fundamentalists [Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints] at Short Creek, Arizona [later became Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah]. How the group broke away from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, members of the early Latter-day Saints (LDS) Church, excommunications in LDS Church, division of priesthood, disputes and challenges faced by the Church.--from abstract.
- Warning of the Lord Jesus Christ Through His Servant Warren Jeffs, to the United States of America - Warning of the Lord Jesus Christ to All Nations - Policies and General Principles of the Government of Son Ahman in the Kingdom of Ahman byCall Number: BX 8680 .F863 W376 2010ISBN: 9781937271022Publication Date: 2011-01-01
- Jesus Christ byCall Number: BX 8680 .M54 J44 2012ISBN: 9781937271169Publication Date: 2012-01-01A compendium of prophecies attributed to Jesus Christ by Warren S. Jeffs during 2010-2012, principally at Palestine, Texas.
- From brainwash to hogwash : escaping and exposing polygamy 2nd ed., rev. & updated. byCall Number: BX 8680 .M54 L377 2004ISBN: 0965811220Publication Date: c2004.
Modern Polygamy in the United States by Call Number: BX 8680 .M55 M64 2011ISBN: 9780199746378Publication Date: 2011-03-09Also available in Library Stacks.- Sermons of Rulon Jeffs 1st ed. byCall Number: BX 8680 .M56 J44 1996 V. 1-8Publication Date: 1996Vol. 1. March 1945-July 1966 -- v. 2. July 1966-May 1972 -- v. 3. May 1972-July 1976 -- v. 4. August 1976-October 1979 -- v. 5. November 1979-January 1985 -- v. 6. February 1985-May 1988 -- v. 7. May 1988-August 1996 and Appendix June 1947-March 1950-- v. 8. Appendix, March 1950-September 1996 and President John Y. Barlow, March 1935- July 1949.
- L. S. Johnson sermons. Volume Two Fifth edition. byCall Number: BX 8680 .M56 J64 1984 V.2Publication Date: [1984]
- Sermons of President Leroy S. Johnson. byCall Number: BX 8680 .M56 J64 1997 V.8Publication Date: 1997
Breaking Free by Call Number: BX 8680 .M58 J44 2017ISBN: 9780062670526Publication Date: 2017-11-14The daughter of the self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church describes the abusive patriarchal culture in which she was raised by sister wives and dominating men and discusses how her father remains a powerful influence on his followers.
Full of Beans by Call Number: BX 8680 .M58 J4447 2019ISBN: 9780578456676Publication Date: 2019-02-01From the perspective of an FLDS Mormon lady, Full of Beans is a contemplative analogy of a deplorable paradox. Written from the heart with candor, deep sincerity, as well as frequent splashes of irony, Full of Beans is a discussion of Fundamentalist Mormon identity, faith and faithfulness, religious intolerance, human rights, contradictions of law, and the cheesiness of the moon.
Saints under Siege by Call Number: BX 8680 .M534 E43 2011ISBN: 9780814795286Publication Date: 2011-10-01Also available in Library Stacks.
Escape by Call Number: BX 8695 .J47 A3 2007ISBN: 0767927567Publication Date: 2007-10-16Also available in Library Stacks.- Short Creek : Colorado City on the Arizona Strip byCall Number: F 819 .M5 M38 1982Publication Date: 1982
- The history of Colorado City, Arizona : formerly Short Creek, Arizona byCall Number: F 819 .M5 W433 1976Publication Date: 1976PART 1. Polygamy history -- Joseph Smith's revelation -- Church persecution -- PART 2. Woodruff Manifesto -- Early Events -- Fundametalist groups -- PART 3. Short Creek history -- Ranching operations -- Early settlement. Homesteaders. Ranchers. Polygamists (Lee's Ferry group ; Salt Lake group) -- PART 4. Short Creek growth -- Polygamist immigration -- Town developments -- PART 5. State conflict -- 1936 trial -- 1944 raid -- 1953 raid -- PART 6. Colorado City today -- Culture -- Growth.
- The Fischer adoption case and Utah's tolerance of the Fundamentalist Mormon family byCall Number: HQ 994 .D754 1991Publication Date: 1991Driggs' Sunstone Symposium presentation regarding the Utah Supreme Court case Johanson vs. Fischer and the right of polygamous families to adopt any children, including orphaned polygamous children. Petitioners Vaughn and Sharane Fischer, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, filed a petition on 30 June 1987 to adopt the five children, ages 5-19, of Brenda and Joseph Thornton (both deceased at the time of this case, though Brenda has recently become the second wife of Vaughn Fischer). The appeal was contested by Pat and Janet Johanson, Brenda's half-sisters, in the Supreme Court of Utah, no. 890053, March 26, 1991.
Destroying Their God by Call Number: HQ 994 .J44 2018ISBN: 0999347217Publication Date: 2018-06-06In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011, Wallace rebelled against the sect, and the FBI helped him reclaim his kidnapped children. Then an "accident" put Wallace into a forty-five-day coma. Growing up as half-brother to future Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint prophet Warren Jeffs, Wallace tried to follow FLDS teachings. After he built a successful business, the church required him to marry a second wife. Wallace fathered twenty children, but he never felt comfortable with polygamy or many other FLDS beliefs.
When Men Become Gods by Call Number: HQ 994 .S56 2008ISBN: 9780312372484Publication Date: 2008-05-13As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints religious sect based in southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives himself. The media were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else. But in 2007, after a two-year FBI manhunt, Jeffs was convicted as an accomplice to rape. Journalist Singular traces Jeffs's rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. It was a movement championed by law enforcement, but more vocally by a group of former wives seeking to liberate young women from the arranged marriages they'd once endured. The book offers new revelations into a nearly impenetrable enclave--a place of inbreeding and eerie seclusion, and a tradition almost a century old.--From publisher description.
Interview with Joy Meldrum by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-013
Publication Date: 2020
Joy Meldrum was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on July 10, 2019 in St. George, Washington County, Utah. She discusses her childhood, marriage, and raising of her children in Hildale, Utah as part of the Fundamental Latter-day Saints. Tom Meldrum, her son, was present and Kathleen Broeder assisted.--leaf 4.
Interview with Lawrence S. Barlow by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-014
Publication Date: 2020
Lawrence S. Barlow was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on July 9, 2019 in Hildale, Washington County, Utah. He discusses his childhood, marriage, and raising of his children in Hildale, Utah as part of the Fundamental Latter-day Saints. Kathleen Broeder assisted.--leaf 4.
Interview with Alvin S. Barlow, Sr. by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-015
Publication Date: 2021
Alvin S. Barlow, Sr. was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on July 11, 2019 in Hildale, Utah. He discusses his childhood, and career in Hildale, Utah as part of the Fundamental Latter-day Saints. Kathleen Broeder assisted. -- leaf 5.
Interview with Claude T. Cawley by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-016
Publication Date: 2020
Claude T. Cawley was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on August 5, 2019 in Centennial Park, Arizona. He discusses his childhood and being part of the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints. Kathleen Broeder assisted. --leaf 4.
Interview with Edna Fischer by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-018
Publication Date: 2021
Edna Fischer was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on November 16, 2019 in Temecula, California. She discusses her childhood in Hildale, Utah as part of the Short Creek Community, and leaving the FLDS church. -- leaf 5
Interview with Ruby Williams and Daisy Hammon by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-019
Publication Date: 2021
Ruby Williams and Daisy Hammon were interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on December 28, 2019 in St. George, Washington County, Utah. They discussed their childhood, marriages, and raising of children in Hildale, Utah as part of the Fundamental Latter-day Saints. -- leaf 5
Interview with Melanie Hammon by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-020
Publication Date: 2021
Melanie Hammon was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on December 16, 2019 in Hildale, Washington County, Utah. She discusses her childhood, marriage, and raising of her children in Hildale, Utah as part of the Short Creek Community. -- leaf 5
Interview with Stanley Matthew Shepp by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-021
Publication Date: 2025
Stanley Matthew Shepp was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on December 19, 2019 in Hilldale, Utah. He related his religious and life experiences leading to the Centennial Park FLDS community. -- leaf 6.
Interview with Briell Blanchart by Stephanie Griswold
Call Number: ORALHIST 2019-022
Publication Date: 2022
Briell (Decker) Blanchart was interviewed by Stephanie Griswold on December 28, 2019 in Hildale, Utah. She related her experience of growing up in and later leaving the FLDS community. -- leaf 5.
- Prophet's prey : the shocking inside story of cult leader Warren Jeffs and the FLDS Church byCall Number: BLU-RAY BX 8680 .M533 U8 2015Publication Date: [2017]Also available in Audio Visual.
Revealing look into the shocking life of notorious cult leader Warren Jeffs and the FLDS Church. Through brainwashing and abuse, the former "President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator" seized control of his followers' lives and an organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Currently serving a life sentence for his crimes, the former FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, Warren Jeffs, is more powerful than ever, exerting total authority over his flock. Through unprecedented interviews with church insiders and victims, viewers are taken into a nightmarish hell of unspeakable crimes that still continues to this day. - Sons of Perdition byCall Number: DISCVIDEO HQ 797 .S623 2010Publication Date: ©2010.Also available in Audio Visual.
"Follows three teenagers who escape from the chokehold of the FLDS, a secretive polygamist sect located on the remote Utah/Arizon border. Joining more than a thousand other exiles, the boys must survive in the alien landscape of mainstream America without parents, money, or education"--Container.
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