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* Rev. John Shearer, letter of 18 November 1830; reproduced in {{Book:Vogel:EMD|vol=4|pages=92-93}} | * Rev. John Shearer, letter of 18 November 1830; reproduced in {{Book:Vogel:EMD|vol=4|pages=92-93}} | ||
* {{CriticalWork:Reflector:28 February 1831:Gold Bible 5|pages=??}} {{nc}} | * {{CriticalWork:Reflector:28 February 1831:Gold Bible 5|pages=??}} {{nc}} | ||
* {{CriticalWork:Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate:9 April 1831:Mormonites|pages=1}} | |||
* {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=16}} | * {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=16}} | ||
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* {{CriticalWork:Walters:Westminster Theological Journal 1974|pages=141}} | * {{CriticalWork:Walters:Westminster Theological Journal 1974|pages=141}} | ||
* {{CriticalWork:Walters:Journal of Pastoral Practice 1977|pages=122}} | * {{CriticalWork:Walters:Journal of Pastoral Practice 1977|pages=122}} | ||
* {{Book:Winn:Exiles in a Land of Liberty|pages=82, see also index}} | |||
* {{CriticalWork:Persuitte:Origins|pages=37}} | * {{CriticalWork:Persuitte:Origins|pages=37}} | ||
* {{CriticalWork:Criddle:Sidney Rigdon Creating the Book of Mormon|pages=sec 2., part 6}} | |||
* Dale R. Broadhurst, "Joseph Smith: Nineteenth Century Con Man?" ''sidneyrigdon.com'' (web paper, accessed 12 November 2010). | * Dale R. Broadhurst, "Joseph Smith: Nineteenth Century Con Man?" ''sidneyrigdon.com'' (web paper, accessed 12 November 2010). | ||
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Source(s) of the criticism
Early works that label Joseph a "juggler" or "conjurer"
- “A hungry lean-faced villain,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 3d series, no. 7 (30 June 1830): xxx. off-site [citation needed]
- Rev. John Shearer, letter of 18 November 1830; reproduced in Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Documents (Salt Lake City, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols, 4:92-93.
- “Gold Bible, No. 5,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 2, no. 14 (28 February 1831): ??. off-site [citation needed]
- A.W.B. [Abraham W. Benton], “Mormonites,” Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate 2/15 (Utica, New York) (9 April 1831): 1.
- Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), 16. (Affidavits examined)
Later works that use the modern terms "con man," "confidence man," or "con game"
- Harry M. Beardsley, Joseph Smith and His Mormon Empire (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931), 43.
- Wesley P. Walters, "Joseph Smith's Bainbridge, N.Y., Court Trials," Westminster Theological Journal 36/2 (Winter 1974): 141.
- Wesley P. Walters, "From Occult to Cult With Joseph Smith, Jr.," Journal of Pastoral Practice 1/2 (Summer 1977): 122.
- Kenneth H. Winn, Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830–1846 (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1989), 82, see also index. ISBN 0807818291
- David Persuitte, Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon (2nd edition), (McFarland & Company, October 2000), 37 ( Index of claims )
- Craig Criddle, "Sidney Rigdon:Creating the Book of Mormon," e-paper, sidneyrigdon.com (originally published 8 October 2005; revised 15 Mar 2009), sec 2., part 6.
- Dale R. Broadhurst, "Joseph Smith: Nineteenth Century Con Man?" sidneyrigdon.com (web paper, accessed 12 November 2010).