Return to Cumorah
Piecing Together Where the Nephites Lived
Now in its second printing, this captivating book attempts to demonstrate that the geographical setting for Book of Mormon events was most likely located in ancient North America, in the eastern Great Lakes area, where Hill Cumorah is found today.
Return To Cumorah begins by explaining how it came about that a second Hill Cumorah is necessary if one assumes that Book of Mormon lands were located in Central America. However, if it can be seen that Book of Mormon events took place in an eastern Great Lakes setting, where Hill Cumorah is today, one can soon realize that there is no need to propose any second Hill Cumorah.
In this book, striking and convincing correspondences in geography are presented piece by piece, as in the pieces of a puzzle. As the pieces come together in a convincing way, it becomes possible to solve the puzzle of Book of Mormon geography. In this process, with meticulous care, the author helps readers to identify plausible locations for almost all major cities and lands mentioned in Book of Mormon accounts.
It is left for readers to decide for themselves just how well the puzzle has been solved.
Piecing Together Where the Nephites Lived
This book is written in reader-friendly style, using many maps, pictures and illustrations, intended to hold the reader’s attention. Also, the subject seeks to answer many questions, a few of which are mentioned briefly as follows.
- How did ruins discovered in Central America captivate the minds of the Saints in Nauvoo, in 1842, causing them to believe that Book of Mormon events had occurred there?
- Where can a very good candidate for the “narrow neck of land” to be found today? How does this important feature of Book of Mormon geography help us to pinpoint where Book of Mormon lands most likely were located?
- What is unique about the lands of Desolation and Bountiful that makes them quite uniquely identifiable today?
- How can Book of Mormon accounts be interpreted in such a way as to piece together the puzzle of where the Nephites lived?
- Why does the Limhi Expedition account strongly suggest a small and localized Book of Mormon geography?
- What about archaeology and The Book of Mormon? To what degree should we expect to identify Nephite ruins today?
- What about the cultures and customs of the Nephites and Lamanites? Are there clues in Book of Mormon accounts that find correspondences with what is known about the Indian tribes of North America?
