The colony : faith and blood in a promised land / Sally Denton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denton, Sally, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass murder--Mexico--Case studies.

Mass murder.

Latter Day Saints--Mexico--Case studies.

Latter Day Saints.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Polygamy.

Polygamy--Mexico--Case studies.

Latter Day Saint fundamentalism--Mexico--Case studies.

Latter Day Saint fundamentalism.

Mexico.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2022]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One "We're Not Radical Cultists"

ch. Two The Englishman and the Danish Girl

ch. Three Mountain Meadows Dogs

ch. Four Zion in a Dry Place

ch. Five "Am I About to Have a Cain in My Family?"

ch. Six Saint Benji and the Vanguard

ch. Seven NXIVM: Ignite the Heart

ch. Eight "Water Flows Uphill to Money"

ch. Nine "Innocence Is Shattered"

ch. Ten "An Eden in Contention".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781631498077

163149807X

OCLC:

1272857338