Events
In the record
Events
These pages belong to events in the history of Short Creek. Story text is free to read.
The Short Creek raid — 26 July 1953. Arizona officers entered the settlement at dawn. Speakers in the 1961 recordings still referred to it as “the raid of 1953.”
The United Effort Plan — the communal land trust formalized on 9 November 1942, the 1998 restatement after Jeffs v. Stubbs, and Utah court administration from 2005 to 2019.