The Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith Jr. (translator; LDS tradition: ancient American prophets) (1830)

“Published in Palmyra, New York, in March 1830, the Book of Mormon is the founding scripture of a distinctly American religion — claiming to recover a thousand-year record of ancient Israelite migrations to the Western Hemisphere, Christ's post-resurrection visit to the Americas, and the eventual destruction of the Nephite civilization at the Hill Cumorah.”