Episode 10: Martin Harris...Dum Dum Dum Dum Dumb

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Within just days of retrieving the Gold Bible from treasure-guardian-turned-angel, Jo orchestrates a meeting with local businessman Martin Harris. Equal parts wealthy with credulity, Harris proves to be outsmarted by just about everyone, possibly even himself.


References:

  • Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard L. Bushman

  • Mormonism Unveiled, by E.B. Howe

  • The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844., by John Brooke

  • Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, by D. Michael Quinn

  • Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and his Progenitors for many Generations, by Lucy Mack Smith

  • History of the Prophet Joseph Smith by his mother Lucy Mack Smith, by Lucy Mack Smith

  • Joseph Brings the Plates Home, by Dan Vogel

  • The Book of Mormon (1830 edition), by Joseph Smith Junior

  • Gleanings by the Way, by John Clark

  • Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism, by Tucker, Pomeroy