Outsiders, FLDS battle for control of towns Warren Jeffs left behind SHORT CREEK — From her house on the hill, Loretta Barlow could see everything God had abandoned. She believed the land below was her birthright, her reward, her refuge from the coming apocalypse. Her church built the twin towns — Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City — by hand. On a clear day she could see the trails she roamed as a girl and the blood-tinged mountains that wrapped around it all, protecting the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from a world they feared.  https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/04/04/outsiders-flds-warren-jeffs-believers-battle-control-short-creek-hildale-colorado-city/359309002/