Volume 2. 2nd Edition. A 2004 (2006) Revised Edition of The Geography of the Book of Mormon by E. Cecil McGavin and Willard Bean which was first published by Bookcraft, Salt Lake City, Utah 1948. Chapters include Preface, Foreword, Illustrations, Battlefield of the Jaredites (and the Nephites), Cumorah Land, The Land of Many Waters, Ramah-Cumorah Land, War in Cumorah Land: Hopewell Trophy Heads, Nephite Fortifications in Western New York Earth Wind and Stone, Ramah-Cumorah and the Spade.
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AN "OLD" AND A "NEW" DEFENSE OF THE NEW YORK AREA FOR "BOOK OF MORMON GEOGRAPHY",
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This review is from: This Land: Only One Cumorah! (Volume 2) (Paperback)
Wayne N. May was co-author (with Edwin Goble) of This Land: Zarahemla and the Nephite Nation, and is also the author of This Land: They Came from the East (Volume 3).
This 2004 book is a newly-edited version of the 1948 book by E. Cecil McGavin and Willard Bean, The geography of the Book of Mormon, with alternating chapters by May. May wrote in the Preface, "A stand for 'One Cumorah' is of great worth. The archaeological record east of the Mississippi River continues to be ignored by many of our leading academics... (this book) will give any serious student of the Book of Mormon a new outlook into the historical and archaeological record of North America." Here are some additional quotations from the book: "For many years the Book of Mormon carried footnotes explaining that 'the land of many waters,' 'the large bodies of water,' 'Ripliancum,' etc., had reference to the Great Lakes, while Ramah and Cumorah were the identical hill, near Palmyra, New York. Because of the popularity of the new theory which places all Book of Mormon races far to the south, these explanatory notes have been eliminated from recent editions of the volume." (Pg. 8) "Elder Orson Pratt did not hesitate to say that two great nations fought their final battles in western New York, and that Ramah-Cumorah was the same hill in which the gold plates were found." (Pg. 17) "Helaman's account (in Helaman 3:3-4) is typical of every reference in the Book of Mormon to Cumorahland. It was 'an exceeding great distance' from the land of Zarahemla... 'An exceeding great distance' from Zarahemla would surely take one far beyond the restricted limits of Central America." (Pg. 81) "No place on the American continent is there such an abundance of lakes, streams, fountains, and pools as are to be found in western New York." (Pg. 83) "It was common practice in the early days of the Church for the leaders to speak and write in defense of the proposition that western New York was the scene of the final wars of the Jaredites and the Nephites. It was thus interpreted by the member of the Church for many years. Joseph Smith never once objected to that explanation. He allowed the brethren to preach the doctrine and write in defense of it for the Church publications." (Pg. 123)
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