“I’m afraid that up to this point, I must agree with Dee Green, who has told us that to date there is no Book-of-Mormon geography … you can’t set Book of Mormon geography down anywhere—because it is fictional and will never meet the requirements of the dirt-archaeology.”

^{Thomas S. Ferguson/Mormon Archaeologist, Ferguson’s 29-page paper (1975), and Letter to Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Lawrence (20 February 1976), “Testing the Book of Mormon” (Salt Lake city, UT: Utah Lighthouse Ministry), 1.}