Copyright

Copyright © 2000 Larry C. Porter. All rights reserved. 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author. To contact BYU Studies, write to 1063 JFSB, Provo, UT 84602, or visit https://byustudies.byu.edu.

Cover image: North end of the Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra, New York, c. 1900,
courtesy L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harol B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

ISBN 978-0-8425-2468-1

This dissertation was approved on July 22, 1971.