Peterson’s article):Īctually, there are two maps, virtually identical to each other, with only minor differences that Dr. Here is a picture of the map (Figure 2 from Dr. Donl Peterson, called “ Moroni, the Last of the Nephite Prophets,” where he provides a copy of the map. Ash provided in his article to another one, which was an article by H. “If the map is genuine and accurately reflects the thinking of early Latter-day Saints and/or Joseph Smith, it supports the theory that Moroni traveled Northward along what became the El Camino, continued traveling north-northwest to Arizona, and then worked his way north through Utah (where we learn that he dedicated the spot for the Manti Temple as well as other temple sites) and eventually found his way to upstate New York.”įascinated by the idea of this map, I followed the link Mr. Ash comes by this information from a map allegedly drawn by information that came directly from the Prophet Joseph Smith. In fact, we are told that Moroni, while on his way to drop off the golden plates he lugged all the way to the Hill Cumorah in New York (named he says, after another hill of the same name located somewhere in Central America), Moroni stopped in Arizona, then went on to Salt Lake afterwards going to Missouri (Independence & Adam-Ondi-Ahman) and then he journeyed to Nauvoo and Pike County in Illinois, and, before getting to New York, stopped in Kirtland Ohio! In February of this year, he published an article entitled, “ How Moroni and the plates may have made it to Hill Cumorah.” He postulates that Moroni traveled from Mesoamerica to New York, and could have done it in under a year. In the ongoing Mormon Apologist Wars on the location of the Book of Mormon lands, one advocate of the LGT (Limited Geography Theory) is Michael Ash.
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