Source Report Card
Chapter 5: South Carolina and the Rocky Mountains (Two Prophecies, Two Grades)
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D&C 87:1-6 (in Revelation Book 2 by early 1833; left out of the 1835 and 1844 D&C; Brigham Young, 1860: "was not wisdom" to publish yet; first printed 1851, England) | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 25 Dec 1832 | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 130:12-13 (Willard Richards's later write-up in Joseph's journal; Richards was not present) | Joseph Smith | 2 Apr 1843 | 2nd-hand, canonized | 1 | A+ |
| Isaiah 2:2-3 (also Micah 4:1-2; Isaiah 5:26; 11:12) | Isaiah; Micah | c. 740-700 BC | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| Joseph Smith journal, 6 Aug 1842 (lodge meeting in Montrose, no prophecy) | Joseph's journal, kept by clerk William Clayton | 6 Aug 1842 | 2nd-hand (same-day clerk entry) | 4 | B (up one, this book's call: plain same-day log) |
| Anson Call statement, inserted into Joseph's history as the Rocky Mountain prophecy | Church historians, from Anson Call's statement, in Joseph's voice | written ca. 1854 | 3rd-hand | 5 | D |
| Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, ch. 45 | The Church | 2007 | reprint of Call's memory | 2 | D (grade follows the original) |
| Wilford Woodruff, General Conference (core line also in Teachings: Joseph Smith ch. 11; punctuation adjusted here) | Wilford Woodruff (then Church President), recalling 1834 | Apr 1898 | 3rd-hand | 3 | C idea / D exact words (idea up one: eyewitness, over the pulpit) |
| Woodruff's "Son of Man will come to them while in the Rocky Mountains" detail | same talk | Apr 1898 | 3rd-hand, uncorroborated | 3 | D |
| Rocky Mountain idea (Call + Woodruff; Joseph's 1844 journal shows a planned western move, no Rockies) | Call; Woodruff | ca. 1854; 1898 | 3rd-hand; two late accounts of different occasions (independence not shown) | 4-5 | C (this book's call: two late accounts point the same way; neither confirms the other's wording) |
| Gordon B. Hinckley, "An Ensign to the Nations, a Light to the World" | Gordon B. Hinckley (then Church President), General Conference | Oct 2003 | 1st-hand | 3 | A |
| Gordon B. Hinckley, "An Ensign to the Nations" (Ensign Peak "named... out of reference to" Isaiah; passive, no namer or date given) | Gordon B. Hinckley (then First Counselor in the First Presidency), reporting history | Oct 1989 | 3rd-hand | 3 | B (this book's call: Conference talk, events 142 years earlier) |
| Same talk (bandanna: "some evidence to indicate") | Gordon B. Hinckley (then First Counselor), reporting a tradition | Oct 1989 | 3rd-hand | 3 | C |
| Old Testament Student Manual (Kings-Malachi), ch. 13, sec. 13-10 (says the "mountain of the Lord" "refers to the restoration of the Church") | Church Educational System | 2003 | 1st-hand | 2 | A |
| Joseph Smith Papers, historical intro to D&C 87 (Painesville Telegraph, 21 Dec 1832, "extensive coverage" of the Nullification Convention's resolution) | Joseph Smith Papers editors | modern | 1st-hand (historians on the newspaper) | 2-3 equivalent (scholarly) | A |
| Compromise Tariff, 1 Mar 1833; South Carolina repeals its Nullification Ordinance, 15 Mar 1833 | Wikipedia, "Nullification crisis" | 1833 | secondary summary | n/a | B |
| "roughly 179,000 black men (10% of the Union Army)" | National Archives, "Black Soldiers in the U.S. Military During the Civil War" | modern | secondary (government archive) | n/a | A |