How prevalent was Joseph Smith’s treasure digging? Where all did Joseph Smith dig for treasures. What do we know about these treasure seeking sites? What do the historical sources tell us about these treasure digs? Black Sheep, Gold Furniture, Sacred scripture translated inside these man dug caves.
RESOURCES:
KC Kern & Greg Pavone Miner’s Hill Project Website 1 – https://archival.link/mormoncave/story?fbclid=IwAR0GLubkK_y8lfDciIgs2vYPHtnX9fkigPX0O5IA5QekS1aULryUM_q9xHA
KC Kern & Greg Pavone Miner’s Hill Project Website 2 – https://imgur.com/gallery/pRGJl?fbclid=IwAR1oN3pmDljsTA1w5TBndASDxTf648P6nCuVVnj3iRqVVpfRg8IERY2YftY
Dan Vogel’s The Locations of Joseph Smith’s Early Treasure Quests https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/VogelTreasuredigs.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1fHa7pfUtaf7CTlEhS-hvHSKCWIFXlig0t_AARJ_OxtELfWBS59LvpqMI
Historical Sources Related to Miner’s Hill Cave https://archival.link/mormoncave/sources?fbclid=IwAR2WXX-gYTmXB_Qn6cnonpqQ-lfDHlMri4g-2veT1SIgMhufxtDGjHSQIoI
Cumorah’s Cave PDF https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1360&context=jbms&fbclid=IwAR3HMObEXTYBVCOxZI5Jqx796yaOWu5hbFWlbKkvwAzdGpTNiWX5QSHcgiM
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Hopefully someday I will get to watch live. Just finished listening. Bill…I loved all of the cave and digging quotes. I wasn’t familiar with any of them and as I was listening I was hoping that the BY one about the wagon loads of plates would come up (RFM didn’t disappoint!). I am very familiar with that one (as many are). I had is as a scripture insert when I was a missionary long ago.
Funny story (at least to me…YMMV) about that quote. When I was a graduate student in Austin in the mid ’90s, our Gospel Doctrine teacher read the quote in class one Sunday. Cool. The funny part is that it started a rather speculative discussion/debate regarding the size of a wagon (that took up the rest of the class time!)so that we could somehow quantify “many wagon loads” of plates. Good times!!
These discussions are not only excellent, but they’re also important to keep early Mormonism from going down the memory hole.
BTW, at the 41 minute mark, how do we know what happened in King Noah’s court? Alma the Elder who later converted.