In Volume Five: INTERVIEWS WITH BOOK OF MORMON WITNESS DAVID WHITMER, CONDUCTED BY: Joseph F. Smith & Orson Pratt William H. Kelley & George A. Blakeslee George Q. Cannon Edmund C. Briggs & Rudolph Etzenhouser Joseph Smith III Zenas H. Gurley James Henry Moyle Thomas W. Smith Nathan Tanner, Jr. Edward Stevenson and the Chicago Times, Kansas City Journal, Omaha Herald, and St. Louis Republican, among others. STATEMENTS, TESTIMONIES, LETTERS, AND REMINISCENCES BY: Hiram Page John Whitmer William E. McClellin Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery Diedrich Willers Lucius Fenn Ezra Booth Parley P. Pratt Sidney Rigdon J. L. Traughber and minutes of meetings, ordination certificates, maps, and a chronology of the Joseph Smith family, 1771-1831. In this 5-volume series: 1. The Joseph Smith family and Vermont 2-3: Palmyra, New York, and environs 4: Colesville & South Bainbridge, New York, & Harmony, Pennsylvania 5: Fayette, New York I was plowing in the field one morning, and Joseph [Smith] and Oliver [Cowdery] came along with a revelation stating that I was to be one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon. I got over the fence and we went out into the woods, near by, and sat down on a log and talked awhile ... when all at once a light came down from above us and encircled us for quite a little distance around; and the angel stood before us ... dressed in white ... A table was set before us and on it the records ... from which the Book of Mormon was translated ... While we were viewing them the voice of God spoke out of heaven saying that the Book was true and the translation correct. --David Whitmer, interview, Saints’ Herald, 1882. Dan Vogel is the editor of  Early Mormon Documents , a five-volume series that won Best Documentary awards from both the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Association. He is the editor of  The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture ; author of  Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon ;  Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet  and  Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism ; and co-editor of  American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon . He is also a contributor to  The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith  and  Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History , among others. He has presented research papers at the annual Mormon History Association meetings, Sunstone Theological Symposium, and similar conferences. He is currently preparing a definitive edition of Joseph Smith’s multi-volume  History of the Church . He and his wife live in Westerville, Ohio.    Excerpt: “I was plowing in the field one morning, and Joseph [Smith] and Oliver [Cowdery] came along with a revelation stating that I was to be one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon. I got over the fence and we went out into the woods, near by, and sat down on a log and talked awhile … when all at once a light came down from above us and encircled us for quite a little distance around; and the angel stood before us … dressed in white … A table was set before us and on it the records … from which the Book of Mormon was translated … While we were viewing them the voice of God spoke out of heaven saying that the Book was true and the translation correct.” —David Whitmer, interview, Saints’ Herald, 1882