Don Bradley

Don Bradley is an author and independent historian specializing in the beginnings of the Latter-day Saint Restoration. He completed an MA in history at Utah State University and a BA in history at Brigham Young University. Don performed an internship with the Joseph Smith Papers Project, working with the earliest Joseph Smith sources. He was the primary researcher for Brian C. Hales’s Joseph Smith’s Polygamy series published by Greg Kofford Books. He has published on the translation of the Book of Mormon, plural marriage before Nauvoo, Joseph Smith’s “grand fundamental principle of Mormonism,” the Kinderhook Plates, and the First Vision. He is the author of The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories (Greg Kofford Books) and is currently completing a book on Oliver Cowdery as revelator and translator.