My first thought is, why is the John Whitmer Historical Association publishing this? Are they so hard up for submissions that they're now reduced to publishing amateur postings from an anti-Mormon website? Is Steve Benson's online oevre next? As is painfully clear to anyone who has ever read Grant Palmer's work--or, worse, heard him speak--Palmer is no scholar. Several of Palmer's primary sources are highly problematic but he shows no awareness of this. He doesn't think to interrogate the motive