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HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH BY HIS MOTHER by Preston Nibley     Winning Bid: $15.00             Number of Bids: 0 Quantity: 1   Minimum Starting Bid: $15.00 Time Left: This auction has ended.   Auction started at: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 08:34 PM   (unless extended by last minute bidding)   Scheduled to end at: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 08:34 PM Seller: sunshine043 (2570)   Seller's Location: the Internet Accepted forms of payment: Money Orders/Cashiers Check  PayPal  Personal Check   Shipping arrangements: Domestic: Buyer pays 4.00 International: Buyer pays actual cost

Lucy Mack Smith's history of her son, Joseph Smith the Prophet, is one of the most significant source materials for early Mormon history. It commences with accounts which reach back to the family of Lucy's parents, including absorbing extracts from her father's journal on his army adventures, then briefly recounts the story of the family parented by herself and Joseph Smith, Senior.

It is from this book that we obtain many of the now-classic Mormon stories of life in the Smith family, Here the author relives the anguish of submitting the boy Joseph to the surgeon's knife without benefit of anesthetic. Here is recounted the series of crop failures which impelled the family to leave Vermont in favor of New York--and the family's journey there in the company of a harsh and dishonest teamster.

Here too are personal and family details supplementing the Joseph Smith account of the angel Moroni's visit, particularly the exciting incidents surrounding the delivery of the plates by the angel--the midnight carriage ride with Emma, the gold plates hidden in a log in the forest, Joseph's encounters with ruffians as he raced home with the plates, the mob's attempts to obtain them and the ingenious precautions taken to preserve them.

The inside story of Martin Harris and his wife and the loss of the 116 pages of the Book of Mormon manuscript. Without Lucy Smith's book, we would altogether lack such detailed and frequently intimate accounts.

Book is hardcover in good condition, dustjacket shows wear with a few tears, creases and scratches. Bookcdraft 1958, 355 pages.

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