Flora Jessop

Polygamist sect: A Section A article Saturday about a Texas court ruling that ordered that more than 400 children seized from a polygamist sect be returned to their parents said one of the group's critics, Flora Jessop, fled a polygamous marriage as a teen. Jessop fled a forced marriage to an older cousin, who had no other wives.

You have to go out of your way to find the place Flora Jessop once called home. Colorado City, Ariz., and the adjoining, indistinguishable town of Hildale, Utah, are perched in a remote valley divided by the dry wash of Short Creek. The towering vermilion edifice of Canaan Mountain is just to the north, the gaping abyss of the Grand Canyon to the south. The only way into this valley is a lonely two-lane blacktop. Getting out, some say, is even harder to do.