The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother (Hard Cover Book) Edited by Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor
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It was the bleak midwinter of 1844-45, only months since her sons Joseph and Hyrum had been murdered by a gloating mob at Carthage Jail, when Lucy Mack Smith sat down to tell her life story to a twenty-three-year-old named Martha Knowlton Coray. For 120 years Lucy’s original manuscript was lost in the Church Archives. In the late 1960’s the priceless manuscript re-appeared.

Earlier editions of Mother Smith’s history (including the original 1853 edition) were heavily edited, leaving many precious parts of her life’s story out, changing her wording, and, in many cases, losing her voice altogether. The Revised and Enhanced Edition changes all that.

Carefully edited from the original manuscript and Mother Smith’s preliminary notebook, here are some of the features that the 506-page Revised and Enhanced History has unique from all other editions:

1) Edited anew from the original interviews of Lucy Mack Smith putting her voice back into the history
2) More than 600 explanatory chapter endnotes to give context and supplementary richness to the story
3) More than 100 photographs of the places mentioned in Lucy’s story to give visual enhancement
4) Carefully-written chapter summaries for all 53 chapters
5) Accurate chronology dating with each chapter
6) A sixteen page comprehensive index to aid in teaching, study and research
7) A seven-page chronology of Joseph Smith’s life included as an appendix
8) A twenty-page editors’ introduction giving the comprehensive and exciting history of the manuscript and various editions of this number-one classic in the history of the Church.

Published on the 140th anniversary of the death of Lucy Mack Smith and now in its 12th printing, The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother is a must for every Latter-day Saint home library.
Hard Cover.
$29.95