by Dan Wees | Aug 7, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The time has come to admit that the Kinderhook plate incident of 1843 was a light-hearted, heavy-handed, frontier-style prank, or joke as the perpetrators themselves called it.” Stanley P. Kimball/Mormon scholar, The Mormon Association Newsletter – June 1981...
by Dan Wees | Aug 7, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The contents of the [Kinderhook] plates, together with a Facsimile of the same, will be published in the Times and Seasons, as soon as the translation is completed.” The Nauvoo Neighbor, Insert (Nauvoo, IL: The Nauvoo Neighbor, 24 June...
by Dan Wees | Aug 7, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The new work which Jo[seph Smith, Jr]. is about to issue as a translation of these [Kinderhook] plates will be nothing more nor less than a sequel to the Book of Mormon; corroborating it in all essential particulars.” Warsaw Signal Newspaper (Warsaw, IL: The Warsaw...
by Dan Wees | Aug 7, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Perhaps there is a common element in those two things – unchastity and murder. Both have to do with life, which touches upon the highest of divine powers. Murder involves the wrongful taking of life; sexual transgression may involve the wrongful giving of life, or...
by Dan Wees | Aug 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Sharing that light [in the BYC] was not easy early in my career as a historian, especially when it involved accessing restricted materials at LDS Archives, notably the enormous Brigham Young collection (CR 1234). I began surveying and transcribing Young’s Utah War...
by Dan Wees | Aug 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
For years now, Native Americans have passed on their own history to the next generation through the oral traditions of storytelling … they have not been believed or taken seriously. Yet time and time again science, history, and anthropology studies have both...
