FootnoteRobert I Anderson: …any “Mistake in the Procedure, some rash Word spoken, or some Rule of Art neglected, the Guardian Spirit had Power to sink it deeper into the Earth and convey it out of their reach.” Benjamin Franklin: “…Franklin noted “that through some...
FootnoteHistorian Rodger I. Anderson: “Long before Joseph Smith’s neighbors alleged that he hunted for buried money by occult means, the art of magical treasure hunting was widespread in America. Accounts of men pursuing enchanted treasures with divining rods are...
FootnoteOf Joseph Smith, Sr., Turner wrote: “The elder Smith …was a great babbler, credulous, not especially industrious, a money-digger, prone to the marvellous; and, withal, a little given to difficulties with neighbors, and petty law-suits.”
