Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Brigham Young vs. the Heartland Model of Book of Mormon Geography

  

Nor do I expect we shall stop at Arizona, but I look forward to the time when the settlements of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will extend right through to the city of Old Mexico, and from thence on through Central America to the land where the Nephites flourished in the Golden era of their history, and the great backbone of the American continent be filled, north and south, with the cities and temples of the people of God. In this great work I anticipate the children of Nephi, of Laman, and Lemuel [RB: a reference to Amerindians] will take no small part. (Brigham Young, letter dated January 11, 1876, in Letterbook 14:125-26)