Hubert Howe Bancroft cites VOTH and the BOM in same publication.

Date
1876
Type
Book
Source
Hubert Howe Bancroft
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, Vol. V (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876), 93–97

Scribe/Publisher
D. Appleton and Company
People
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Ethan Smith
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Relics unmistakeably Hebrew have been very rarely found in America. I know of only two in stances of such a discovery, and in neither of these cases is it certain or even probable that the relic existed in America before the Conquest. The first and best known instance is related by Ethan Smith, according to Priest, as follows: [Excerpt from Josiah Priest's excerpt from View of the Hebrews] . . .

Ethan Smith, Views of the Hebrews, presents eleven arguments in favor of the Jewish theory.

. . .

The account given by the Book of Mormon, of the settlement of America by the Jews, is as follows:

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