Mancos, CO Polygamist camp – Population: 0
Recently, Hal Mansfield (Rocky Mountain Resource Center) stopped by one FLDS location in Colorado, and was greeted only by the sounds of nature.
In the shadow of disruption of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints precipitated by the arrest a year ago and the trial of its leader Warren Jeffs, and seemingly by financial woes, many members have been abandoning homes.
Their home base is/was in Hildale and Colorado City on the Utah-Arizona border. Tax problems and abandoned homes plague that community. A new compound has been built in Custer County, South Dakota. The FLDS church has/had another compound, Zion, in Texas
Where they are moving to (or perhaps escaping to) is anyone’s guess, and that fact, in and of itself, drapes an eerie pall over the whole story.
Mansfield sent FACTNet this report:
All Photos by Hal Mansfield.
Hal Mansfield reporting from Colorado:
Hi folks,
This is a mini field report! I was in Mancos, CO and thought I’d check out the property there that belongs to the FLDS. I spent a chunk of a Saturday afternoon there (boy, do I know how to party).
Anyway, low activity, no one was there at all. In fact, the place looks as if no one has visited for some time. No tracks, and grass is growing over the tire tracks.
Hal Mansfield
Rocky Mountain Resource Center
A little FLDS background and links at UK’s Channel4.com
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Tere, IMHO
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Posted by Tere on August 24, 2007.
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