Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record

by H. Michael Marquardt and Wesley P. Walters

Book Overview

For more than 150 years the story of Mormon origins has been rewritten to a point where only fragments remain of the original. This book restores much of the human drama and detail. Moving from village to village, the Joseph Smith, Sr., family lived in constant poverty. When in 1825 Joseph, Sr., a cooper, defaulted on the family's final mortgage payment, he and his nineteen-year-old son, Joseph Jr., traveled 100 miles south to Pennsylvania to join...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002NRZUGW
• ISBN13: 9781560851080
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Signature Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"