Excerpts on the First Vision edit

This page contains several excerpts from reliable sources that I've collected on the subject of the First Vision. I've put them here primarily for my own use, but others are free to use them as well. I have scanned a few pages from each book and made them available for viewing as pdfs. I feel this qualifies as fair use, but if somebody disagrees I can easily take them down.


  • Bushman, Richard Lyman (2005), Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (PDF), New York: Knopf, pp. 36–41, ISBN 1400042704.
  • Brodie, Fawn M. (1971), No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (PDF) (2nd ed.), New York: Knopf, pp. 21–25, ISBN 0-394-46967-4.
  • Vogel, Dan (2004), Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (PDF), Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, p. 30, ISBN 1-56085-179-1.
  • Remini, Robert V. (2002), Joseph Smith: A Penguin Life (PDF), New York: Penguin Group, pp. 36–41, ISBN 0-670-03083-X.
  • Quinn, D. Michael (1998), Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (PDF) (2nd ed.), Salt Lake City: Signature Books, pp. 136–137, ISBN 1-56085-089-2.
  • Shipps, Jan (1985), Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (PDF), Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 2–4, 9–10, 30–33, ISBN 0-252-01417-0.
  • Palmer, Grant H (2002), An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (PDF), Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, pp. 235–258, ISBN 1-56085-157-0
  • Ostling, Richard and Joan (1999), Mormon America: The Power and the Promise (PDF), San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, p. 24, ISBN 0-06-066371-5.
  • Quinn, D. Michael (December 20, 2006), "Joseph Smith's Experience of a Methodist "Camp-Meeting" in 1820" (PDF), Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
  • Allen, James B. (Autumn 1966), "The Significance of Joseph Smith's "First Vision" in Mormon Thought" (PDF), Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 1 (3): 29–46