Peep-stones

Here's documentation that Joseph Smith was a smalltime conman and charlatan whose "revelations" about the lost tribes of Israel were indebted to popular speculations about the origin of American Indians and their lost civilizations:

Dan Vogel, Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/scripture-test-01/

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/indian-origins-and-the-book-of-mormon-02/

Robert N. Hullinger, Joseph Smith’s Response to Skepticism

http://signaturebookslibrary.org/joseph-smith-–-skepticism-05/