Has anyone written a book about the Whitmers? Also, Is there a biography on Oliver Cowdery?

Don't know the answer to your questions but we have a direct descendent of the original Whitmer (Mormon Royalty) in my former ward and he's a real dirt bag.

My favorite reference to the Whitmers EVER:


"I could not feel more satisfied and at rest," quipped Mark Twain half a century later, "if the entire Whitmer family had testified." (Samuel Clemens, Roughing It)


LOL

I thought Lyndon Cook (former CES and BYU prof) wrote a book about the Whitmers; emphasizing their role as witnesses. I'm wrong a lot, but I know he was working on that book in the 1990s. He asked me to research some microfilm at the U of I library in connection with it.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! :-)

http://www.mrm.org/topics/documents-speeches/mark-twains-review-book-mormon

>THE TESTIMONY OF THREE WITNESSES.

>Be it known unto all nations...

>Some people have to have a world of evidence before they can come anywhere in the neighborhood of believing anything; but for me, when a man tells me that he has “seen the engravings which are upon the plates,” and not only that, but an angel was there at the time, and saw him see them, and probably took his receipt for it, I am very far on the road to conviction, no matter whether I ever heard of that man before or not, and even if I do not know the name of the angel, or his nationality either.

>AND ALSO THE TESTIMONY OF EIGHT WITNESSES.

>Be it known unto all nations, kindreds...

>And when I am far on the road to conviction, and eight men, be they grammatical or otherwise, come forward and tell me that they have seen the plates too; and not only seen those plates but “hefted” them, I am convinced. I could not feel more satisfied and at rest if the entire Whitmer family had testified.

Edit: Apologies to Dagny (Great minds think alike). I was working on this one, and yours slipped in ahead of it...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2013 08:57PM by SL Cabbie.

LOL! Yours was much better.

Thank you, thank you, that was great! I'll have to read Roughing It again as a non believer.

For me, everything reads better through the eyes of a non believer. :-)

Once you remove the filter of belief you'll be amazed at the things you will run across in books that you would have never noticed before.