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Beginning in the early 1990s, several Latter-day Saints jumped on the Great Lakes Book of Mormon geography bandwagon. Because the Great Lakes and Mesoamerican models are by far the two most popular, I plan to spend the next several issues discussing them. The first Latter-day Saint to publish a Great Lakes model appears to be Delbert Curtis, who in 1988 published the booklet “The Land of the Nephites.” In 1993, he expanded his argument in his book "Christ in North America." Since 1988, other Latter-day Saint authors have also promoted their version of the Great Lakes model. These include Duane...