Just spitting distance across the Utah border in Arizona, the very rural and remote Colorado City is home to rigid fundamentalists who think the Mormon Church sold out when it abandoned polygamy 119 years ago. The high walls surrounding houses with multiple front doors and "no trespassing" signs clearly signal "outsiders not welcome." The dress code is prairie Victorian: women wear long dresses, men sport long sleeves and trousers. This is a place where a woman is urged to "keep sweet," and a man is told he needs three wives to attain heavenly glory. All are exhorted to submit to the town's patriarchs, who've been known to hand down bizarre edicts –– such as banning the color red. There's also the lurid and appalling criminal reality, including charges of statutory rape and child abuse that have drawn police and television crews to this and other polygamist towns around the
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