The "Book of Pukei" is the earliest satire of the Book of Mormon.[1] It was published in June and July 1830 by Abner Cole (under the pseudonym Obadiah Dogberry Esq.) in the Palmyra, New York newspaper The Reflector.[2]
^Cannon, M. Hamlin (September 1944), "Contemporary Views of Mormon Origins (1830)", The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 31 (2): 261–266, doi:10.2307/1893428, JSTOR 1893428
The "BookofPukei" is the earliest satire of the Bookof Mormon. It was published in June and July 1830 by Abner Cole (under the pseudonym Obadiah Dogberry...
of the Americas to Asia. For example, Abner Cole's parody of the Bookof Mormon, The BookofPukei, described characters wearing moccasins. The Book of...
publishing excerpts from the book. Later, in June 1830, Cole printed two satires of the Bookof Mormon under the name, "BookofPukei". This satire involved...
printed a parody of the Bookof Mormon, the "BookofPukei", in his Palmyra paper The Reflector in 1830. This parody described the role of "Walters the Magician"...
Palmyra Reflector prints a satire of the Book of Mormon entitled The BookofPukei. It refers to "Walters the Magician" (Luman Walter). The "idle and slothful"...
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