Benjamin "Ben" Granger Bistline (21 April 1935 – 25 June 2016) was an American historian of Mormon fundamentalism in Short Creek, a community of which he was a part.
[3] Bistline's parents were practitioners of mainstream Mormonism, living in Providence when some residents of Cache County began to challenge the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' ban on polygamy.
Bistline lived in Colorado City until 2003, when the UEP trust agreed to sell him a mobile home in nearby Cane Beds, Arizona at a low cost, and assisted in the relocation there.
Agreka Books republished it as a 432-page paperback in February 2004,[5] and later issued a condensed, 236-page version, titled Colorado City Polygamists: An Inside Look for the Outsider.
[6] Jon Krakauer cited the self-published version of The Polygamists as his source for Short Creek's history his book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.