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31457
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English
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A 'Forbearance of Restraint' : American Wildlife and the Word of Wisdom, 1560-1833
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2018
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19
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Sandy, UT
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The Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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1-39
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"In an effort to fill this gap, and to provide additional understanding of the historical context of these passages [relating to the Word of Wisdom], this article looks at how Americans viewed and used various wild animals in the years prior to the reception of this revelation in 1833. It also examines the conditions that those ideas and practices resulted in by that time. In brief, historical sources show that by the early 1830s, unregulated and indiscriminate hunting, trapping, and habitat destruction in the eastern United States had almost eliminated several kinds of wild animals—many of which had been abundant earlier—from the regions fauna, and several more species were on the brink of disappearing from places where they had been found earlier. In many cases the animals were being used for things other than human food and at times when other foodstuffs were readily available. Several individuals expressed their concern about the situation at this time, and while their numbers were far too modest to constitute anything approaching a national movement, their observations were, nevertheless, published and circulated. With this background, it becomes clear that the Word of Wisdoms ideas on the proper use of wildlife were very different from the conditions that existed in America in 1833, making this part of the revelation like many other ideas Joseph Smith produced that challenged long-standing attitudes and practices." [Author]
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