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The colony : faith and blood in a promised land / Sally Denton.
"A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when polygamy was outlawed. In The Colony, the best-selling investigative journalist Sally Denton picks up where initial reporting on the killings left off, and in the process tells the violent history of the LeBaron clan and their homestead, from the first polygamist emigration to Mexico in the 1880s to the LeBarons' internal blood feud in the 1970s to the family's recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult. Drawing on sources within Colonia LeBaron itself, Denton creates a mesmerizing work of investigative journalism in the tradition of Under the Banner of Heaven and Going Clear"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631498077
- ISBN: 163149807X
- Physical Description: x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-256) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: She Was the Whitest -- "We're Not Radical Cultists" -- The Englishman and the Danish Girl -- Mountain Meadows Dogs -- Zion in a Dry Place -- "Am I About to Have a Cain in My Family?" -- Saint Benji and the Vanguard -- NXIVM: Ignite the Heart -- "Water Flows Uphill to Money" -- "Innocence Is Shattered" -- "An Eden in Contention" -- Epilogue: Sisterhood. |
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| Genre: | True crime stories. Case studies. |
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| Ashland Public Library | 364.152 DEN (Text) | 3039900036510$ | Non-fiction | Available | - |
| Cambria County Library | 364.1523 D415c (Text) | 85131001838573 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Carbondale Public Library | 364.152 DENTON (Text) | 50688010820679 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Dalton Community Library | 364.152 DENTON (Text) | 50689010455623 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| Palmerton Area Library | 364.152 D43 (Text) | 65000000056855 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| RPL - Southeast Branch Library | 364.1523 Den (Text) | 33223008881541 | Non-fiction | Checked Out | 05/02/2024 |
