A few said they saw them in the late 1820s (with "spiritual eyes")
Other than that...nope...the Mormons went West in the mid-1840s. Smith was dead by then. No Mormons saw these gold tablets in the 1830s and 1840s...and "spiritual eyes"??? (C'mon, now)
In US history and social attitudes to how one practices his or her religion, 1857 & 2013 are different worlds. The religion that we most fear is radical/political Islam, not Mormons.
In US history and social attitudes to how one practices his or her religion, 1857 & 2013 are different worlds. The religion that we most fear is radical/political Islam, not Mormons.