Many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints assume that the Book of Mormon lands are found in the Yucatan of Mexico, but this notion doesn’t agree with newly discovered evidence. The author, a veteran FBI agent, has breached the steep wall of misunderstanding about the location of the Book of Mormon lands and has uncovered stunning evidence discrediting the Central American model. The results of this investigation have produced 51 exclusive insights and discoveries placing the Book of Mormon lands in Western New York State. The evidence is in – you can decide for yourself.

Answers provided by Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th President of the LDS Church, to the questions of readers, in a monthly page of The Improvement Era, under the continuing title "Your Question." Supplemented by material gathered from the files and personal correspondence of President Smith.

This book introduces the reader to the Book of Mormon's authoritative hierarchy of internal and external "witnesses," beginning with the 36 prophecies and promises that its ancient writers originally intended latter-day readers to use in identifying the promised land of their day and ours. Readers will discover how these prophecies and promises establish and reveal a specific latter-day nation as the Promised Land of the Book of Mormon.

The author demonstrates that the Book of Mormon is a native Mesoamerican book (or codex) that exhibits what one would expect of a historical document produced in the context of ancient Mesoamerican civilization. He also shows that scholars' discoveries about Mesoamerica and the contents of the Nephite record are clearly related, listing more than 400 points where the Book of Mormon text corresponds to characteristic Mesoamerican situations, statements, allusions, and history.

From ample archeological evidence, it appears the lands of western and central New York were once populated by ancient civilizations. The question that must be asked is-- did they belong to the Nephites and Jaredites? Since the Book of Mormon clearly details the demise of two mighty nations in the territory of Cumorah, we can only surmise that the artifacts found in that region were left by those whose history is contained within the Book of Mormon. However, in order to successfully locate the individual territories described within the scriptures, which verify that these lands were indeed populated by the Book of Mormon people, we must first go back in time to an era when primeval forests and great inland seas filled the land from one end to the other. Only by reconstructing that ancient setting can we hope to locate the lost lands of the Nephites and Jaredites. Even though much of the water that once filled the territory has long since receded from the land, much water still remains-- including the beautiful Finger Lakes which are the last remnants of that era.