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- Bernardino de Sahagun: "Fodder was provided the deer—horses—which the Spaniards rode" (view source)
- David Whitmer (1884): "I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears" (view source)
- Grayson: "extinct North American mammals...losses began in Mexico and Alaska during the Pleistocene and ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago" (view source)
- Joseph Smith listed as author and proprietor of the Book of Mormon (view source)
- Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: "Pottery and other cultural materials were found in levels VII and above. But in some of those artifact-bearing strata there were horse bones, even in level II" (view source)
- Martin Harris: "As sure as you see my hand so sure did I see the angel and the plates" (view source)
- Martin Harris: "The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard" (view source)
- Martin: "no theoretical reason why a herd of mastodons, horses, or ground sloths could not have survived in some small refuge until 8000 or even 4000 years ago" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "Bones of domesticated cattle...have been reported from different caves in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis" (view source)
- Miller and Roper: "two distinct species of peccary live in Mesoamerica....They were hunted and eaten as early as Olmec times" (view source)
- Myron H. Bond (1878): John Whitmer "knew as well as he knew he had an existence that Joseph translated the ancient writing which was upon the plates, which he saw and handled" (view source)
- P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us" (view source)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (view source)
- Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormon copyright? (view source)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have hypnotized the witnesses to the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith receive a revelation instructing him to to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada and later claim that the revelation was false? (view source)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he did not see the plates with his natural eyes, but rather the "eye of faith"? (view source)
- Question: Did Martin Harris tell people that he only saw the plates with his "spiritual eye"? (view source)
- Question: Did the three witnesses's experience of seeing the plates and the angel take place only in their minds? (view source)
- Question: Do Martin Harris's statements related to the "spiritual eye" or "eye of faith" contradict the reality of his witness? (view source)
- Question: Does the Church teach or believe that Joseph Smith was "illiterate"? (view source)
- Question: Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
- Question: How did the erroneous story of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright develop over time? (view source)
- Question: How do critics of the Church attempt to dismiss the literal experience of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: How does David Whitmer's account of the attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright compare to those of the eyewitnesses? (view source)
- Question: Is it possible that Joseph Smith simply added the Book of Ether to the Book of Mormon as an "afterthought" in order to explain the variety of animals in the New World? (view source)
- Question: What did David Whitmer's associates say about his character? (view source)
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (view source)
- Question: What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: What was the size of each of the gold plates? (view source)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate (view source)
- Question: What was the thickness of each gold plate? (view source)
- Question: What was the thickness of entire volume of gold plates? (view source)
- Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates? (view source)
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question: Why does the Book of Mormon say that Jesus would be born "at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers" when the Bible states that he was born in Bethlehem? (view source)
- Question: Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Question: Why is Joseph Smith listed as "author and proprietor" of the 1830 Book of Mormon instead of as "translator"? (view source)
- Question: Why would Martin Harris use the phrases "eye of faith" or "spiritual eye" to describe his visionary experience? (view source)
- Question:Could ancient Americans have expanded the definition of "horse" to include new meanings? (view source)
- Question:Have any ancient horse remains from the Nephite period been found in the New World? (view source)
- Question:What role do horses ''not'' play in the Book of Mormon? (view source)
- Question:Why don't potential pre-Columbian horse remains in the New World receive greater attention from scientists? (view source)
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'" (view source)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (view source)
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (view source)
- Source:Bernardino de Sahagun:The War of Conquest: How It Was Waged Here in Mexico:Aztecs viewed Spanish horses as deer (view source)
- Source:BoM verses:Horses (view source)
- Source:Echoes:Ch2:8:David Whitmer:I saw with these eyes and I heard with these ears (view source)
- Source:Grayson:Deciphering North American Pleistocene Extinctions:5:losses...ended in Florida perhaps as recently as 2000 years ago (view source)
- Source:JBMS:10:1:Out of the Dust:Horse bones in Yucatan (view source)
- Source:John Whitmer handled the plates - "Theodore Turley's Memorandums" (view source)
- Source:Joseph Smith:1832 History:Education (view source)
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:116:1:Do you see that hand (view source)
- Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:117:1:I know what I know (view source)
- Source:Martin:The Discovery of America:Science 179:974:No theoretical reason mastodons, horses and slots could not have survived (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Cattle and horses (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Sheep (view source)
- Source:Miller and Roper:Animals in the Book of Mormon:Interpreter:Swine (view source)
- Source:Myron H. Bond:Saint's Herald:25:John Whitmer...the plates, which he saw and handled (view source)
- Source:P. Wilhelm Poulson:Deseret Evening News:6 August 1878:John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us" (view source)
- Source:Pietro Martire d'Anghiera:Herds of deer (view source)
- Source:Reexploring the Book of Mormon:Ch:26:1:Excavations at the Post-Classic site of Mayapan in Yucatan in 1957 (view source)
- Source:Sorensen:Ancient American Setting:294:Cattle (view source)
- Source:Sorenson:Ancient American Setting:290:Swine (view source)
- Source:Wikipedia:Bighorn sheep:Native to North America (view source)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (view source)
- Verses in the Book of Mormon that talk about "horses" (view source)
- Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge" (view source)
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