Short Creek: A Refuge for the Saints
March 27, 2018Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.
Dialogue 36.3 (Spring 2003): 71–87Watson shares why early fundamentalists broke off from the main church and decided to leave Utah and settle Short Creek.
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