Between These Hills

America had thousands of years of human history before John Cabot arrived. Native Americans had spread across the continent. Apart from massive earthworks, their history was forgotten. But what is forgotten is not lost--if it's recorded. The first night they met, Moroni told Joseph Smith that the "a history of the aborigines of this country... was written and deposited" not far from Joseph's home near Palmyra, New York. Even before Joseph obtained the plates in 1827, he referred to the hill where they were deposited as Cumorah because that's what it was called anciently. The Hill Cumorah is the touchstone between past and present. The cradle of the Restoration was the tomb of the Nephite civilization. The Cumorah of Moroni and Joseph Smith has been largely forgotten, relegated to the host of the stone box and the abridged plates. But Cumorah is much more than that. Between these Hills relates the history of how the New York Cumorah was lost, how it is being rediscovered, and what it tells us about the Jaredite and Nephite civilizations.--Back cover.