I got excited when Johnny Harris made a couple episodes about Mormon history. He is a former Latter Day Saint (LDS for short), so I kinda expected a unique perspective that’s useful for prospective learners. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed a downward trend on his channel and these were exemplary of that, making for something that will hurt viewers’ understanding of this history. So this is a response video. I want to show what went wrong here, not to berate Harris, but to illustrate the disservice this narrative does for people who seek education on this topic, along with perhaps showing a means to improve.

16:40 Should be the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, not Land Ordinance of 1785 (thx @Yannis1a)
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*Bibliography*
Alex Beam, American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church (New York: Public Affairs, 2017). [ Ссылка ]

Michael S. Durham, Desert Between the Mountains: Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869 (New York: Henry Holt, 1997). [ Ссылка ]

Essays on American Indian and Mormon History, eds. P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019). [ Ссылка ]

Benjamin E. Park, American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2024). [ Ссылка ]

Brent M. Rogers, Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017). [ Ссылка ]

The Missouri Mormon Experience, ed. Thomas M. Spencer (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2010). [ Ссылка ]

John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2012). [ Ссылка ]

Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History, 2nd ed. (1986; Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1989). [ Ссылка ]
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