01885cam a22003373u 4500 45619 UtSlPG 20260610134039.0 m cr n 260607r2014||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 BX Smith, Lucy, 1775-1856 History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2014 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Joseph_Smith_by_His_Mother Release date is 2014-05-09 Produced by the Mormon Texts Project. See http://mormontextsproject.org/ for a complete list of Mormon texts available on Project Gutenberg, to help proofread similar books, or to report typos. Special thanks to Trevor Nysetvold for proofreading. "History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother" by Lucy Smith is a biography published in 1853. Dictated by the mother of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, this family memoir sparked immediate controversy. Church leader Brigham Young condemned it as lies and ordered copies destroyed, possibly due to conflicts with its publisher and the book's portrayal of the Smith family as legitimate church leaders. Despite the opposition, historians later recognized it as an essential source for understanding Mormon origins. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 Smith, Elias, 1804-1888 Smith, George Albert, 1817-1875 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45619 86458 86458