An ostensibly fictional dream vision of P.P. Pratt's regarding the establishment of a vast, Mormon kingdom in the Midwest.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/mor/aoftp/aoftp.htm
From correspondence posted at http://www.sacred-texts.com/mor:
'After having contacted his colleague Marlin Jacobs I received the following answer from Mr. Jacobs to Stan Barker on January 14th 2004:
Stan,
"Angel of the Prairies" was a piece of fiction written by Pratt in Nauvoo. It was transformed into a speech given by Pratt by anti-Mormon lawyer Theodore Schroeder in his defense of the Spaulding Manuscript Theory in the American Historical Magazine, which B. H. Roberts responded to in the same magazine (which changed its name to Americana). We have this series (both Schroeder and Roberts) on the web site.
According to Roberts, Pratt did write "Angel of the Prairies," but only as fiction.
Malin
Conclusion: The document ‘Angel of the Prairies’ is a fictitious story written by Parley P. Pratt and is in no way connected with the theology or revelations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.'
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