Polygamy: Trouble in Colorado City

Colorado City-Hildale (more commonly known as Colorado City), an isolated town straddling the Arizona-Utah border, has been home to a vigilant Mormon polygamist sect for approximately eighty-five years. Polygamy, also called plural marriage, is the practice of having more than one spouse at one time. In Colorado City, men are the ones taking multiple wives. Breathtaking mountains towering the boundaries of Colorado City act as thick, masonry walls to a fortified fortress. These walls conceal a community contaminated by brainwashing, male chauvinism and abuse toward women and children.…