Deseret News author rejects Fawn Brodie's argument that the Book of Mormon is dependent on View of the Hebrews.
"Appraisal of the So-Called Brodie Book," Deseret News, Church News section (May 11, 1946): 8
Saying that it may never be proved that Joseph Smith ever saw "View of the Hebrews" before writing the Book of Mormon, on the next page she declares it "only a basic source book for the Book of Mormon," and for pages proceeds on the assumption that he got it from the legend of a buried Indian book. With admirable complacency she assumes that Joseph was acquainted with another book because years later he possessed a wholly different book by the same author. And so the assumptions multiply on and on to fill the gaps left by an absence of facts.