Item Detail
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9332
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6
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English
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Mound-builders, Mormons, and William Cullen Bryant
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New England Quarterly
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June 1961
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34
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178-90
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Dahl describes the archaeological interest in the Mound-builders during the early 1800s. Many authors speculated on the origins of these past people, who left mounds behind as evidence of their existence. Most contemporary authors felt they were different than the North American Indians, though possibly related to them, and described their demise in great (fictional) detail. William Cullen Bryant was one such author, as was Joseph Smith, Dahl declares. He describes the Book of Mormon as being 'the most imaginative and best sustained of the stories about the Mound-builders.' (p. 187)
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Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Poetry
Books Buried in the Earth : The Book of Mormon, Revelation, and the Humic Foundations of the Nation
Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph Smith’s Use of Pseudo- Intralingual and Intersemiotic Translation in the Creation of the Mormon Canon : The Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Book of Abraham