“Many of the earliest Mormons, including [Oliver] Cowdery, Martin Harris, Orrin P. Rockwell, Joseph Knight and Josiah Stowel, were rodsmen or money diggers but became Mormons for religious reasons.”
Marvin S. Hill, Secular or Sectarian History. In Newell Bringhurst’s Reconsidering No man knows my history: Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in retrospect (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), 70.
