The First Work of Mormon Science Fiction? Maybe, but at Least the Pterodactyls are Cool
The original cover and title page of A Trip to the North Pole; or, Discovery of the Ten Tribes (1903) On the first Sunday of December in 1903, a headline in the Salt Lake Tribune announced the startling news, NORTH POLE DISCOVERED—six years before explorer Robert Peary’s famous, if disputed, expedition. According to the article, a Mr. O.J.S. Lindelof had, on a recent trip to Europe, been given a waterlogged manuscript that he brought back with him to Salt Lake City. When he finally got around to reading it, the manuscript turned out to be a record of the discovery of the North Pole by a S...
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