In fact, I agree with many of Neville’s conclusions in his review of “Examining the heartland hypothesis as geography” article.I must say that I believe that your review of the Heartland Geography is very fair. ((See J. Theodore Brandley, “Five Misunderstandings of the Book of Mormon Text that Veils Discovery of its Geography,”.The confluence suggested for the land of Manti is the joining of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, at the southern tip of Illinois (search for Future City or Cairo, IL on a favorite online map).

This Heartland was perceived as the greatest natural fortress on earth surrounded on all sides by geographical barriers. The Jaredites also used the narrow neck as a border, living in the land northward and preserving the land southward as a hunting wilderness:And they built a great city by the narrow neck of land, by the place where the sea divides the land.And they did preserve the land southward for a wilderness, to get game. Alma 22:27 is much more demanding, but all to easy to get wrong.Aye, matey!

The Heartland Theory is important to anyone taking the AP® Human Geography exam. It became tradition. The Iowa Zarahemla is about 900 air miles from the Gulf and probably 1500 miles on the winding river before dams. Although there are only two “narrow necks” there is is also a “small neck” that is just a different reference for the same feature. Now, don’t misunderstand me–I make up stuff with the best of them. People close to Joseph used the name.It is directly parallel to the change from.As for your suggestion that Moroni could have buried the plates in Cumorah–that is certainly true. Mahan had used his study to propose policies for the American government to follow. You might find a Manti near the head of a river, but if it isn’t in a strip of wilderness, you have it wrong. In the age of modern warfare, Mackinder's theory is widely considered outdated.
Hopefully they will publish it where we can discuss it.Theodore, I realize that you have your own geography that uses the New York Cumorah.

In Alma 16:7 Mormon gives important details: “And it came to pass that Zoram and his sons crossed over the river Sidon, with their armies, and marched away beyond the borders of Manti into the south wilderness, which was on the east side of the river Sidon.”.Zoram and his army crossed the river Sidon and marched south to the borders of Manti, entering “into the south wilderness, which was on the east side of the river Sidon.” This description is difficult to reconcile with the confluence of two major rivers. That correlation cannot be correct for two reasons. Once again, if the Heartland narrow neck is right, the location of the hill Cumorah is wrong. The Heartland geography places the hill Cumorah to the east of the narrow neck, and in the land southward. Although there have been some good advances in calibrating the variables of the C14/C12 ratio there are some variables that have not been accounted for. Definition of heartland. I will only examine the geographic information in verse 27:And it came to pass that the king sent a proclamation throughout all the land, amongst all his people who were in all his land, who were in all the regions round about, which was bordering even to the sea, on the east and on the west, and which was divided from the land of Zarahemla by a narrow strip of wilderness, which ran from the sea east even to the sea west, and round about on the borders of the seashore, and the borders of the wilderness which was on the north by the land of Zarahemla, through the borders of Manti, by the head of the river Sidon, running from the east towards the west—and thus were the Lamanites and the Nephites divided.

Any short term gains will ultimately lead to potentially huge long term losses.The Heartlanders do have two things going for them:1. From the length and detail of the address given by Oliver Cowdery in 1831, from which the above quote is taken, it had to have been recorded by Parley P. Pratt at the time it was spoken. Everyone also agrees that the text doesn’t identify any modern sites in the New World, so there is no frame of reference.
This would put Manti at least 800 miles from Zarahemla, which would be unrealistic for several events which involve both cities.The ongoing debate over whether the Lord revealed the city of Zarahemla in Iowa, or whether Joseph Smith revealed that “the ruins of Quirigua are those of Zarahemla” is totally academic because neither location meets the requirements of the Book of Mormon. Hagoth then launched his ships into the sea on the west side of the narrow neck of land, or into Chesapeake Bay of the Atlantic Ocean.I have detailed the “Journey of the Jaredites” and their landing in what is now New Jersey in an article that I submitted to to “Interpreter” about two months ago. For example, you are indicating that there should be the remains of quite a large number of cities supporting large populations that must be fit into the Delmarva Peninsula. The only first-person source comes from the epistle that Joseph Smith dictated on September 6, 1842, which was later canonized in the Doctrine and Covenants, Section 128.“Glad tidings from Cumorah! Heartland is a captivating story that follows a family of people just trying to navigate this thing called life together as a unit. One is to find anything that might be a great city that existed at least in 650-550 bc. Zarahemla was north of that strip of wilderness, but the land and city of Manti are in that strip of wilderness “by the head of the river Sidon.” This section of the verse has had multiple interpretations in the various proposed geographies. Yet there is no clear evidence of when the name was attached to the hill or who first applied it.A valiant effort but I think if falls short. 26-27). Their are ruins in lots of places during Book of Mormon times. This theory was proposed by Sir Halford Mackinder in his 1904 essay, “The Geographical Pivot of History.” There is a lot to this theory and its importance, so let’s outline some key terms: 1. That means that they were sacred places in the days of Adam, Enoch and Noah.Perhaps the land of Cumorah was the ancient land of Cainan, where dwelt Enos, grandson of Adam, and his descendants, and all the other righteous saints of his day.